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Issue No. 11 Editor: Ray Palmer

1988

TRUE n

IT HAPPENED TO ME „...n.ononnnonnnaai 44
Dreams That Came True... Mrs. M. I. Johnson
Space Is But A Thought A-Way . Harriett M. Gallagher
ene tun Anonymous
The Headless Men... Helen Bailey
The Skeleton Driver Mera Gaskill
Seeing Double Mrs. Barbara Hancock
A Ringside Seat With Decth John G. Parry
Better forgotten e Betty Hall

BISHOP SHEEN’S GHOSTLY STRAIGHT Ma w.. 67

ARTICLES

IS YOUR UNBORN BABY EXPENDABLE?................. Ray Palmer 8

HYPNOTHERAPY VERSUS DIANETICS.... Prof. Alfred Luntz 13

GOVERNOR JOHNSON’S ATOMIC BILL OF RIGHTS... Ray Palmer 18

WHAT ARE THE FLYING SaucERS 2 Max B. Miller 34

THE DAGGER BEHIND THE ATOMIC CLOAK
Marion Kirkpatrick 62

s A PLOT AGAINST OUR LIVES 5 Richard 8. Shaver 68

l FICTION BASED ON FACTS .

l n „„ 8 Everil Worrell 30

FEATURES

EDITORIAL .......... . Ray Palmer 6
“TRUE” EXPERIENCE DOESN'T CHECK OUT? Weeks Parker 33
.. Dorothy Spence Laver 80
THE SEANCE CIRCLE......... 2 Letters from our Readers 89

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Editorial. :

HIS issue of MYSTIC is de- mad! Mad clear through. Mad
voted to a mass of material enough not to overlook an open-
which may be called a ern. 5 — in the other guy’s guard,
factic through which he can smash his
i alstie ugly nose flat against his skull-
tendencies, and by the person who bone! Those openings have pre-
wishes to deride. To or of = a sented them: Ives, and this issue is
white that smashing punch. It may even
hii and to Khe cher ted is: soap beadirty punch. It is designed
box orator. Both of them will have to attract attention. It is designed
something to say about your edi- to make the blood squirt. It is in-
tor this month, because it so pane tended to hurt. And last of all, it
pens that the material contained is intended to start an even bigger
in this issue actually is in the na- fight. So let's start swinging .
ture of a crusade, and i via the variety of articles authored
presented in as soap box a manner by your editor in this issue.
as we can achieve. But since this is an editorial,
Ordinarily we're rather 1 and we wish to cover our “punch-
insofar as use of hard words is ing” very thoroughly
concerned. Ordinarily we refrain enter the ring here in the editor-
from such words as “liar.” We ial, but will just give a sort of pre-
choose to ignore liars, because their limin ry to the main bout. And a

fall, ly. quite a few subjects.
But when we have to add the All of you know that MYSTIC
words “vicious” and “dictatorial? is not a rich magazine. In fact, it
and “overbearing” and “malicious” had trouble paying its bills.
and “underhanded”, then weare Its subscribers have always come
becoming far from impersonal, and through magnificently (never more
fat from neutral. So, let it be said, magnificently than recently!) and
with the chips falling where they the bills have been paid. However,
may, that the editor is crusading, several incidents have arisen which
and not only that, he is crusading have induced a change in our

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which is not due to penurious-
ness, but to honesty. From now on,
we are not paying for the material

in MYSTIC. We will publish
‘offered free of charge by
writers, researchers, etc. You won-
der why? And you wonder how
we'll get good material? Well the
fact is, we expect to get much bet-
ter material that way. And our
reason is simple: We have found
that a great many writers are not
above presenting a completely
fictitious manuscript, labeled true,
for publication. The reason they
do so, is because they can make
money at it. Because we will pay
them for it. “Making a buck”

seems to be sufficient reason to

write in (for instance) a false
true psychic experience. We feel
‘that by not paying money for
anything in MYSTIC, nobody will
have a reason to submit material
‘that is false, except possibly to see
his name in print, which we admit
‘does happen, but isn’t easy to guard
Against. However, sometimes we
will request material, and offer
payment. But in these instances,
we will know what we are asking
for, and its truth will already
have been established, or we would
not request it. And in the case of
the Occasional fictional pieces we
pct (mostly ordered to illustrate
mystic point), we will again

t. In any case, payment

an be small, for the simple reason

that we aren’t, as we said balore,
a rich magazine.
In the case of It Happeried To
Me... . we pay it by means of a
lde subscription. We doubt
if anyone would want to read 48
issues of lies similar to the one he
himself presented, so we don't
think there'll be many people
„dreaming up“ fake experiences.
After all, knowing his is a lie,
how could he trust the others?
You might ask yourself, regard-
ing atomic energy, poisoning of
the atmosphere by test bombing,
etc, what is mystic about such
things, and where is their place in
MYSTIC magazine? We think it
is the very place for such material.
The atom is the frontier of the un-
knowns, the land of the hereafter—
hidden science, the doorway to
new vistas that stagger the imag-
ination, and whose influence
reaches into worlds we never even
dreamed about, and dimensions yet
unknown. And lastly, it poses the
immediate threat of plunging us
all into that most mystic of all un-
knows, the land of the hereafter
and in no gentle or pleasant way!
We are (perhaps all unknown to all
of us, including our military men)
possibly being doomed to death by
our activities in atomics. It would
be well to search rather thoroughly
into this unknown world, thought-
fully, carefully, and with the best
(continued on page 15)

IS YOUR UNBORN BABY
EXPENDABLE ?

By Ray Palmer

HE May, 1955 issue of
I Farm Journal, in its Last-
Minute Report, is very much
alarmed by a series of new dis-
eases which are striking beef and
dairy herds all over the country.
These diseases are called by a
variety of names including muco-
sal disease (Iowa), upper respira-
tory infection (California), virus
diarrhea (New York), and so on
through the various states. But
everywhere, the symptoms are the
same, and in spite of the varied
nomenclature, it is a tremendously
baffling disease or series of dis-
eases.
The symptoms are these: fever
shoots up, sores appear in the
mouth, the animals slobber, there
is a discharge from the nose, they
are afflicted with diarrhea, they
become lame and stiff. It is con-
sidered highly infectious, due to
the fact that half to all of the ani-
mals in some herds are effected in
a few days. Few diseases, it is
pointed out, are this potent. Death
losses are not high (up to 10%)

but losses in weight, condition and
milk flow are costly. Antibiotics
have absolutely no effect on the
disease, although they are of as-
sistance in secondary infections
which many times follow, such as
pneumonia,

At Milton Junction, Wisconsin,
Dr. W. D. Chesney recently has
discovered that stillborn lambs and
young lambs, who died shortly
after birth, were highly radioac-
tive, especially in liver and pan-
creas and lungs,

At Green River, Montana, in the
McKinnon area on the Utah-
Wyoming border, there has been a
heavy loss of lambs, born dead,
most of them prematurely, and
ranchers have raised the question
as to whether or not the cause is
radioactive fallout from the Nevada
tests. :

At Kalamazoo, Michigan, on
March 22, Dr. Haym Kruglak,
who has been making radioactive
fallout tests (he’s a Western
Michigan College Physicist), has
discovered that the Nevada tests

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Is YOUR UNBORN BABY EXPENDABLE? 9

Sit raised the cosmic radiation
count from 46 to 800 per minute,
an increase of 1,700 per cent. This
top reading, he says, is “a danger
signa »

He began checking Kalamazoo
air on March 7, at the time of the
latest atomic tests at Yucca Flat,
Nev.

The morning of the first ex-
plosjon he got a normal cosmic
radiation count of 46 a minute. By
1 p.m. March 9, the average count
had reached 67 a minute. By the
2 erae of March 10, the count

had reached 200.
Similar investigations after the
March 12 tests in Nevada dis-
closed “basically the same re-
sults,” Kruglak said.

However, during the last ex-

periment. Dr. Kruglak checked a

pan of snow and found that 234
‘days after the test the count of the

snow reached 800.
Asked if that was dangerous

replied.

“T wouldn't go out and sit in
that snow “ite and I wouldn’t
bon it down and drink it. A read-
ing of even ro times normal radia-
“tion, or around zoo, is a danger
‘signal to me.”

In the Atomic Energy Commis-
~ sion’s ryth semi-annual report, it
i 8 that radiations from

changes than heretofore estimated.
Experiments at the Oak Ridge
National Laboratory show that
mutations in mice as a result of
radiation, occur at a ten times
greater rate than those observed
in fruit flies, on which previous
estimates of radiation damage to hū-
man heredity were based. The
AEC has revised its estimates of
the genetic hazards as a conse-
quence of its mouse tests. It is
pointed out that the effects on hu-
mans may be correspondingly
higher, but that it is impossible to
determine this ‘because human
beings have never been subjected to
such tests. However, it is certain
that previous “tolerance levels“
have been much too
Said Professor H. J. Muller, No-
bel prize-winning geneticist, on
April 25: “Radiation from H-
bomb tests can cause tens of thou-
sands of harmful mutations in the
next generation of Americans.” He
also said: “It is largely the reck-
less attitude on the part of physi-
cians (in the case of x-ray exposure)
which has influenced extremists to
claim that nuclear explosions are
harmless or even beneficial. So
many people are already aware of
the damaging action of radiation on
‘heredity that these attempts in high
places to ‘disclaim the danger cause
‘the public to lose confidence.“
Dr. Linus Pauling, Nobel Prize
winner, also came out March 19,

asking that no further testing of
nuclear weapons be conducted by
Russia or the United States be-
cause of the worldwide effects of
radioactive fallout.

In view of the stated opinions of
such respected and able men as
these, it is impossible to reconcile
the statement on March 19 of a
man known as Jack Blotto who
says: “A big communist ‘fear’ cam-
paign to force Washington to stop
all American atomic- hydrogen
bomb tests erupted this week.”
(Readers of Mystic may be able to
compute the source of the eruption
by Femembering that this maga-
zine’s first articles on the subject
appeared on March 10, to be fol-
lowed swiftly by numerous news-
paper statements, and the now
famous official announcement that
the fallout area from an H-bomb
covered 7,000 square miles and
could kill everybody in an area the
size of the state of Delaware.)

Mr. Blotto went on to use such
phrases as: “important communist
drive,” “straw man set up by the
Reds to try and create alarm,”
“typical distortions,” “fake claim,”
“panic pressure,” “fanning public
sentiment,’ “totally false line,”
“communist propagandists.”

We would like to know who this
Jack Blotto is; because we are in-
terested in punching him in the
nose. He is speaking about

us, about Drs. Muller and Pauling,

and about every respectable Amer-

ican who has raised a well-founded,
documented, experiment - backed,
logical, positive, unassailable, and
perfectly TRUE warning about
the dangers involved.

On the same date, or almost the
same date} Admiral Strauss (with
the shiny blue pants, made this dec-
laration, in essence: It is better
that a few unborn Americans die
tomorrow of genetic damage, than
millions. of Americans in an atomic
war today. The reason for continu-
ing the tests is the grave necessity
of keeping ahead of the Russians,
and the stake is our existence as a
nation.

In the light of this statement
(you can dig up the exact quotation
yourself) we have no doubt who
Jack Blotto is—one of the same
ilk.

Now let’s go back to the lambs
and steers and cows. By reading
official government pamphlets on
the symptoms of atomic bomb ra-
diation on human beings, you can
discover that these symptoms are
identical. This leads to very strong
(and not unbased) suspicion that
the new disease is not a disease at
all, but radiation exposure. This
exposure is particularly dangerous
in pregnancy. Any sane doctor will
refrain from x-raying a pregnant
patient unless absolutely necessary,
because of the effects he knows can

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0 IS YOUR UNBORN BABY EXPENDABLE? It

death; or if a live birth, to genetic nancies), we made some inquiries,
damage and resulting monstrosity and learned a startling fact, In our
or deformity. Ov tle nity, |
One of the .
diation is the cau ig of ac nt Mi

round up the medical fac
but anyone poe can do

and p

Bile te caused . nage
blood cells, e manna ot

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gen- carrying eed of the blood.
Perhaps one of our physician
friends can enumerate the exact
process for us, but the details are
not necessary in this particular
dicussion. 7
Your author has three children, tl
and several years ago, he and his
Wie decided to have a fourth child.
Unfortunately there was an acciden- th
tal abortion, which seem _Spon- th
taneously produced. That it fol- ics,
lowed the Spring series of . el
tests closely meant nothing to us. ful. In such case, carelessness be-
A year later, we tried again, with comes criminal.
exactly the same results, and also, The argument that any human
Shortly after the next series of being is expendable for the safety
tests. Suspicious by now, (no signs of other human beings is fallacious.
of such inherent weakness were In the case of soldiers who vol-
. evident in the three former preg- unteer to be expendables, they are

12 MYSTIC

given the chance to make a choice,
In this case, the exposure is compul-
sory, the death that: results is a
sentence of death.

Yet, the big question here is not
a personal one, but a practical
universal one — the fact is, the
tests may quite conceivably be
dooming the world to the very
same extinction the two competing
nations are trying to avert for
themselves by the threat of im-
posing it upon the other. Let’s not
allow the Blottos and the Strausses
to hold the reins of horses they
do not intend to control, through
misguided bullheadedness or sheer
stupidity.

You future parents of America
(and of the whole world!), do you
consider your unborn sons and
daughters expendable? Are you
agreeable to offering them up as
Sacrifices on the altar of the H-
bomb in the hands of men who set
themselves up as the highest tri-
bunal of all, even over God him-
self?

And worse still, if you have al-
ready lost a child, is the atom
cloud over Nevada sufficient con-
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HYPNOTHERAPY VERSUS
DIANETICS

By Professor Alfred Luntz

Duving a recent Mark Probert se-
ange, œ question submitted by Carl
Cursio regarding hypnotherapy
was put to Professor Luntz. His
Answer seemed to us to vate a sep-
arate treatment in MYSTIC.

HILE hypnosis is the oldest

method used to reach into

the mind of an’ individual to
get at the cause of his bodily ail-
ments, there are other methods
which I feel are just as good if not
better. One of these is known in
your present day as “Dianetics.”
(Created by L. Ron Hubbard.—
Ed.)

The fact that it was mishandled
and suffered a good deal of abuse
in its initial period is no logical
reason to assume its lack of value
in What you are seeking to do. Of
course you did not mention whe-
ther or not you had tried using
anything other than hypnotherapy.

While I mention Dianetics (now
called Scientology), there are
many other approaches to the
“inner” self, and it is my belief
that no single one of them will work
successfully on all individuals —

13

Professor Alfred Luntz

and more, it is my concerted opin-
ion that all too many people are
caused to have their period of suf-
fering unnecessarily prolonged be-
cause of the wide-spread belief
among physical and mental doctors
that there is such a “touch-stone”
and each one claiming ke alone has
it.

14

Now in regard to your statement
that the Hindu hypnotist can
hypnotize anyone, you will par-
don me if I object to that asser-

tion. While it is true, by and large,

that the Eastern psychologist is con-
siderably better in his practice
with things dealing with mind, he
is still a human being and as such
he is no more given to infallibility
than is anyone else.

While it is true that almost all
human beings are by nature subject
to hypnosis, there are a multitude
of fears and phobias lying deep
within the unconscious that pro-
hibit them from opening their minds
for ion.

‘Unfortunately, orthodox psy-

in seeking the origin of
complexes, has sought it in only the
present life’s experience of the
patient. I suppose this is a natural
situation, for very few of your
modern psychologists have given
much thought to Hindu psychology
and the teachings of reincarnation.
If we accept reincarnation as a fact
we shall see the logic in assuming
‘the so-called soul or spirit of an
individual to be a composite of re-
corded experiences and no more
than that. We shall also begin to
understand that the physical body
is a direct creation of the mind of
the individual wrought out of the

memories of past experiences and

what he will have to use it for in

MYSTIC

Many persons — asked me, If
reincarnation is true, why do they.
not remember their past lives?”
The fact is, they do, but they have
‘been laboring under the idea that
such recalling must be done in the
form of mental pictures,
largely done in remembering what
they did yesterday or as they do’
in recalling a dream, when factual- _
ly the greatest portion of the me-
chanics of memory takes place in
what is loosely termed the “uncon-
scious self“ and is felt in the ner- -
vous system as urges, which are
then transferred to- the glandular

system which prepares the body —

chemically to go into action.
Now let us suppose that one or

more of these unconscious urges —

contain within them elements of
shame or fear. They may restrict
the body self from responding;
and the energy that was created
by the urge finding no normal out-
let, turned back upon the nervous
system and will soon or late create
a physical ailment, and very often
and for reasons known only to the
inner self of that one, he will block ©
every effort made to release him

from his ailment. I am certain you

are aware of medical cases wherein

a person suffering from illness that

is known as fatal has gotten well
again, even though receiving no
medical care at all, and then there
are certain other persons who have

said they were going to die, and die

as is

HYPNOTHERAPY VERSUS DIANETICS 15

they did, even though the closest
medical examination of their bodies
showed nothing organically wrong
with them.

Now when. we consider all that
has been said here, you will see
why I cannot offer you help in
what you desire.

I mentioned Dianetics or Scien-

tology because there are certain
people who mentally abhor the
thought of losing their own con-
sciousness, and the method men-
tioned here permits the patient to
retain his own awareness and to
know what he is doing, which in
many respects is better for the
patient in the long run.

EDITORIAL...
(Continued from page 7)

scientific and mental ability we
have, rather than plunge ourselves
into it irretrievably in our incon-
tinent haste. (Perhaps the better

word is kate!)
Another subject you might ques-
tion as to its mystic nature is the
subject of free speech. Well, free
speech is inextricably linked with
free thought, and with free prac-
tice of religion, and with free ex-
pression of philosophy. You can-
not have true mystic freedom with-
out free speech. That is why, in
this issue, we have an article in
E free speech, and the Amer-
an Way, is stressed in no unheated
manner. Free speech, the greatest
gift to mankind from the Unseen
hg does come from
mystic réalms!), is worth fighting
for, and must be fought for ‘when-
ever it is threatened. It is the duty
of the philosopher to protect the
F es of mankind's

mystic destiny. He cannot achieve

that destiny while hampered by
lack of such freedoms.

In our April issue, where we
started the atomic danger ball roll-
ing (and how it has begun to roll!),
we experienced a situation we’ve
never exxperienced before. We re-
ceived more than 4000 requests
for reprints of both the atomic
article (which was written by
your editor, for the benefit of
those who asked who wrote it)
and the poisoned food article. Na-
turally, since type was destroyed,
and no reserve copies available, we
were unable to provide these re-
prints. And to reprint from scratch
would have been financially im-
possible, even though many of those
requesting reprints offered to pay
for them. Unfortunately, we are
not the Reader's Digest, with the
money to provide these really ex-
pensive luxuries. We do want to
thank our readers who were so
anxious to spread the word, and
we felt quite flattered.

We also want to thank those
readers who sent in subscriptions,

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and even gifts, in response to our
plea for subscribers, There are al-
ways some people who are willing
to carry any load for a principle.
and we certainly appreciate those
friends. We won't give you any
figures, as we promised, as we'd
hate to admit that the figure is so
very far from the 5,000 we agreed
to duplicate if they came through.
However, never fear, we won't
turn to sex magazines to make
money. It seems our present sub-
scribers are solidly behind us, and
the way they are coming in for
“seconds” means a great deal. It
means that MYSTIC has their
approval, and with that sort of
encouragement, we're in there

for good! We'll make

MYSTIC better every issue, be-
lieve us — the incentive is cer-
tainly there!

When it comes to a question of
morality, just what does it mean?
Of course, our readers know our

or a great many individuals of
varied numbers. Take as an in-
stance the case of a mother about
to give birth—and it is the doc-
tor’s opinion that the mother will
die if the child is not sacrificed; or
the reverse, the child will die if the
mother is not sacrificed. When a
doctor is faced. with that problem,
what should his decision be? In
the Catholic faith, the decision is
this: He must try his best to save
both, even if he loses both, or
either, in the end. He cannot make
a choice, and take a course either
way. Even if the husband, told of

the dilemma, frantically demands

that the wife be saved, at the ex-
pense of the baby. The moral issue
is quite clear to the Catholic doc-

tor— save them both, if at all

possible, with the help of God—
and if he fails, his conscience is
clear.

Yet, there is an argument here.
What if he knows, beyond all
doubt, that the baby cannot be
saved? And that to try, would doom
the mother? Is one death not bet-

ter than two? Would it not be

murder to condemn the mother to
death as certain as the baby’s? Or,
in the case of an abortion (accid-
ental), must the mother be allowed
to bleed to death because the foe-
tus has not yet actually been pas-
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is no question that, Catholic or not,

doctors make them, even though
they might not be in line with dog-
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may be that there is a differ-
‘ence of opinion even among the
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write and correct us.
However, what is the morality in
a case where neither the mother
or child is in danger, but possible
future mothers and children may
‘be in danger if an. “experiment”
is not performed? Is there any
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“the greatest number” applies a
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e

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By Ray Palmer

When an American has something to say, it is
the duty of every other American to defend his
right to say it; for any suppression of speech
is the seed of eventual loss of all liberty.

T isn’t often that a governor of

one of these United States
comes apart at the seams, but
apparently, when one does so, he
teally blows himself high wide and
handsome. However, just in case
this particular governor still has a
few of his nuts and bolts assem-
bled, it’s about time someone

finished the job of taking them

apart. And, because Tom Paine,
George Washington, Ben Franklin,
and a few others aren’t around to
do the “dirty” work they once did
so ably, your editor will take it
upon himself to bring up a few re-
minders which might serve to put a
few facts back where they belong.
Not that we liken ourselves to Tom
Paine, but we do have one ac-
complishment, and that is the
ability to read. It is something we
have read that we want to pass
on to the readers of MYSTIC (and,
we hope, to the whole mass of the
American People— commentators,
please copy!). We refer to the

newspaper stories that came out of
Colorado on Sunday, March 13,
1955. After we’ve passed them on
(so that you can refer back to
them), we want to make a few
comments that we have been hor-
ribly shocked to find have not
been made anywhere in these Unit-
ed States since then. We can’t un-
derstand why they haven’t been
made. And we are alarmed that
they haven’t been made.

The following are actual excerpts
from newspaper stories:

RADIOACTIVE DUST
FALLOUT ALARMING
SCIENTIST THINK

DENVER, March, 12 (AP)—
Fallout of radioactive dust in
Colorado from the Nevada nuclear
tests has reached a point where it
can no longer be ignored by those
concerned with public health and
safety, two scientists at the Uni-
versity of Colorado medical center
said today.

GOVERNOR JOHNSON’S

“For the first time in the his-
tory of the Nevada tests, the up-
surge in radioactivity measured
here within a matter of hours after
the tests has become appreciable,”

Dr. Ray R. Lanier, head of the |

university's radiology department,

said in an interview.

“Tt is not our desire to alarm the
public mind needlessly, but we
feel it is our duty to say so.”

LN He said his department is study-

$ n. N
AEDE Theodore Puck, head of the $

ing the fallout, measuring its in-

tensity, and will report its findings |

to the Atomic Energy Commis-

* biophysics department,
also pointed out that geiger

counter readings don't tell the *

Whole story of radiation hazard.

#

“The trouble with airborne radio-
active dust is that we breathe it N
into the lungs,” he said, “where |
it may lodge in direct contact with §

living tissue.” BS

He said this is erh different
from having it lodge on skin or j.

clothing where it can be brushed or
washed off.”

Dr. Lanier said that there is no $i
“Safe minimum below which the Lent)

danger of radiation damage to in-
dividuals: or their unborn de-!
‘meats: disappears, ‘i

4

ATOMIC BILL of RIGHTS

20 MYSTIC

“Or at least we do not know
what it is,” he added.

COLORADO'S GOVERNOR
TONES DOWN ATOM FEARS

rado.

Two University of Colorado
medical center scientists said
earlier that officials concerned with

AEC,“ said the Mayor.

At Grand Junction, Colo., Direc-
tor Sheldon Wimpfen of the AEC
office there said he was assured by
authorities there would be no
harmful radiation from recent nu-
clear blasts near Las Vegas, 600
miles from here.

SCIENTISTS SEEK BAN
ON A-BOMB:

Governor Johnson charged
Saturday night that last week’s
warning by two University of
Colorado professors on the potential
danger of atomic “fallout” from
the Nevada A-bomb tests was part
of a nationwide drive by American
scientists “against the use of atomic
bombs.”

The governor said in a formal
statement that employment of
‘fright’ strategy” by the two C. U.
scientists was aimed at creating
public sentiment against “the
necessary testing of atomic bombs”
and was “most damaging to the
defenses of the free world.?“

The two professors, Dr. Ray
Lanier and Dr. Theodore Puck,
expressed frank shock when in-
formed of the governor's charges.
“They called it most serious,“
“most unfortunate” and “rather
amazing” but said they would with-
hold a detailed reply until later.

Dr. Ward Darley, president of
the university, said it was his
opinion that questions raised by the

*

primarily are con-
d with the adequacy of our
tific knowledge.” He added:
s hard for me to see why
g such questions should be
political implications, but
inno position to comment
»
e two scientists told Denver
5- last week at a press
nce that the fallout in
rado and other areas in the
bath of the Nevada tests had
the point “where it no
can be ignored from a
health standpoint.” They
effects of the fallout on fu-
nerations can not be meas-
red by today’s Rnown facts on

Drolessors

e statement caused an imme-
national furor, brought in-
denials of danger from the
energy commission, the
r, Mayor Newton and other
During last week, sev-
scientists backed up the
3 in formal state-

the free world's
persisting in plans
ne x be weak -

A >

ATOMIC BILL OF RIGHTS N 21

of future generations. Unless Am-
erican scientists remain way out

in front of Russian atomic scien-

tists, there will be no future gen-
erations of Americans.

“Many of us could and roa

share their opposition to these

lethal destroyers were it not that

the United States is in a desperate
and deadly atomic race with ruth-
less Russia.

“The threat of atomic bombs is
all that stands between peace and
war in the world today. Much as
the United States would like to
stop testing and improving atomic
bombs, she dare not do so.”

The governor said he was not
accusing the Boulder scientists and
their colleagues of “being Fifth
Columnists.” But he added: “Their
employment of ‘fright’ technique
is most damaging to the defenses
of the free world” and charged that

“fallout in this case merely pro-

vided the vehicle upon which to
launch a well-planned attack upon
the atomic defenses of the United
States.”

ANGRY ED RIPS
REPORT, SAYS
ARREST AUTHORS

Governor Johnson said Satu ay
night he does not believe the
active fallout from the Nevada
atomic tests could be dangerous
eee
that the University of Colorado

;

LS

mae e a

22 MYSTIC

scientists who released the report
should be arrested.”

The governor was angry about
the report released to the press by
Dr. Ray R. Lanier, head of the
university radiology department,
and Dr. Theodore Puck, head of
the biophysics department. He
charged that the release was a
“publicity stunt” and said the two
scientists were “out for publicity.”

Johnson said he was speaking as
a member of the congressional
atomic energy committee “from the
time the first A-bombs were ex-
ploded at Hiroshima and Nagasaki.”
He added that he planned an im-
mediate investigation of the report.

“This is a phony report,” the
governor said. “It will only alarm
people. Someone has a screw loose
some place and I intend to find out
about it.”

“NOTHING TO RETRACT”
CU SCIENTIST HOLDS

Dr. Ray Lanier said Saturday
night he “doubts that Governor
Johnson’s statement” attacking
Warnings against the dangers of
atomic fall-out “needs a reply.“
Lanier and Dr. Theodore Puck—
both of whom are professors in
the University of Colorado sys-
tem—drew attack from Johnson,
who said the warning was part of
a conspiracy by American scien-
tists against further development
of atomic weapons.

“T will not reply to it now, and
I doubt that it needs a reply,”
said Dr. Lanier. “I hope, only, that
the newspapers will not put me in
a position of replying in rash terms
to the governor... ”

Dr. Lanier was asked if he were
“as positive today” as he was at
his March 11 press conference on
the possible dangerous effects to
Denver life from wind-borne Ne-
vada atomic “fall-out.”

He replied: “Those are funda-
mental, printed facts, and there is
no backing away from facts. Nor
is there anything to retract. When
we conducted our press conference,
we qualified all of our observa-
tions with conditional factors.”

Dr. Puck termed Johnson's al-
legations “most serious” but de-
clined comment, He said he wanted
time to “reflect” upon it seriously,
and would withhold comment until
he reads Johnson’s text.

He called the attack “most un-
fortunate,” however. A reporter
commented:

“Tt would appear the governor
has accused you and Dr. Lanier
of taking part in a plot to under-
mine the defense of the United
State. Wouldn’t that constitute a
very serious charge?”

“Certainly,” Dr. Puck replied.

DR. PUCK RATED HIGH
AS VIRUS INVESTIGATOR
A Univerity of Colorado scien-

attack by Governor
n for his scientific views
joactive “fallout” is one of
ntry’s top virus investiga-

Dr. Theodore Puck, head
department of . biophysics
CU medical center in
sP
Puck’s studies in virus in-
of cells have long been
d by major grants from
rican Cancer Society which
ay be able to unlock,
studies, some of the
ounding the cause of
ind how it starts inside cells
human body.“
1953; Dr. Puck made major
iedical news when he re-
results of his work

It was this theory
d off a new avenue in

ATOMIC BILL OF RIGHTS 23

This isotope has a half life of ean
eight days, but during its brief life
span it emits beta as well as gamma
rays. The beta rays are high-speed
particles (electrons).

Beta rays, according to Dr.
Puck, do not travel very far, even
through air. But when in contact
with living tissue the effects of a
beta emitter cannot be ignored.
With this idea in mind, Dr. Puck
says his department has been taking
beta ray readings of radioactive
fallout material following the cur-
rent Nevada tests, and plans to re-
port its findings to the AEC.

Other Denver and Denver-area
dust samples now are being gath-
ered atop the Denver public
schools administration building
and at a water filter plant mid-
way between Denver and Golden.
Under a recent change in policy,
these samples are being air-mailed
immediately after taking to an east-
ern office of the U. S. public health
service for study. For several years,
the Denver weather office has
been taking dust samples for study
by the AEC.

The C. U. medical school scien-
tists point out that ever since
Henri Becquerel discovered radio-
activity in 1896, men have been
trying to determine what a “safe
dosage is.

Ehe best ‘guinea pigs’ for So-
called safe dosage studies,” Dr.
Lanier said Saturday, “have been

24

the radiologists themselves. Doc-
tors now try to keep below 300
milli-roentgens a week, but X-ray
doctors have nine times the leuke-
mia rate of the average citizens,
They have five times the incidence
of skin, kidney and Jung cancer.
And they have more mal-formed
children. Particularly for genetic
damage, which may not show up
for several generations, there is no
known safe minimum dosage.”
The time to study atomic fallout
problems and determine how to
cope with them properly is now
while the matter is in its infancy.
When big-scale atomic power
planets become widespread, the
problem will be much more serious
than it is now, with infrequent wea-
pon tests in the Nevada desert
the only source of atomic-dust.

ATOMIC ‘FALLOUT’
EFFECTS EXPLAINED

Just why scientists, including
Drs. Theodore Puck and Ray R.
Lanier of the University of Colo-
tado Medical Center here, are

worried about the long-range ei-

fects of atomic “fallout” is ex-
plained in easy-to-understand
terms in the March 21 issue of Life

MYSTIC

The CU scientists, a biophysi-
cist arid a radiologist, stated merely
that Colorado fallout from the Ne-
vada bomb tests has ‘reached a
point where it “no longer can be
safely ignored.” But internationally
famous scientists quoted by Life
are far more out-spoken, calling
the fallout peril potentially more
Fn than the nuclear fireball it-

oni So Rabinowitch, U. S. bio-
chemist and one of the major
“wheels” in the wartime atom
bomb project, warns that “atomic
war may throw a monkey wrench
into the mechanism of the preser-
vation of the species.”

Herman J. Muller, geneticist
and Nobel prize winner, says;
“Atomic warfare may cause as much
genetic damage, spread out over fu-
ture generations, as the direct harm
done to the generation exposed.”

Alfred H. Sturtevant, another
geneticist, is even more specific
about dangers discussed here re-
cently by the Denver scientists.
Sturtevant states:

“The last H-bomb test (the one
that showered fallout on the Jap-
anese fishermen) alone probably
produced more than 70 human mu-

been producing muta-
nges) in the genes which
such hereditary traits as
eyes, red hair, long fingers.
are good, but the vast ma-
e bad. They cripple, stunt,
The balance is thought
quite delicate, and that is

nowitch meant by atomic

re “throwing a monkey wrench
preservation of the species.“
two-page spread, Life shows
r photographs of plant cells
d 4,000 times. One cell is
il, the pattern of the chromos-
is separated into two clean-
3, ready for cell division in-
identical descendants. But
ther picture, radiation has
the , battered the
„The cell will divide
s which are different,
. akenei and maimed.
* „ *

there you have the news-

es. It is difficult to
any coherent, well-
manner on such a hodge-
SA it will be best to

ATOMIC BILL OF RIGHTS

25

the matter of their positive state-
ments regarding the effects of ra-
dioactivity. | Every high-school
sophomore knows his science well
enough to be able to agree with
them without cavil. Thus, when they
say something, it should be listened
to with respect.

But, when we come to Governor
Johnson, it seems to be a different
matter. Governor Johnson is angry.
He says Lanier and Puck should
be arrested. May we ask, what for?
We expect an answer, Governor.
An answer if you please. What
charge do you propose to use to
arrest these two men? We can see
only one, and we won't touch upon
it quite yet, because we have some
very strong words to say about it,
and we want them to be all in one
paragraph (because if we dwell up-
on it much further, we shall burst
with a louder bang than any atom
bomb! ).

What do you mean, Governor
Johnson, when you say: “This is a
phony report.”? You mean it’s
phony? Not true? You must know
better! You went to High School,
we've discovered, and took some
physics so you know it isn’t phony.
So why say it is? Please, Governor,
why?

“tt will only alarm the people,”
you say? Very nice of you, gover-
nor, to shield us that way, but if

you please, we don’t alarm so easily.

enn at danger, being

intelligent people, and we always

recognize danger, and try to avoid

it. It’s only common sense. And our

past history, from 1776 on, shows

‘that we don’t panic. We meet

danger, and we combat it, in every

way humanly possible. We don’t

chicken out. No matter what you

| think about the color of our guts,
it isn’t yellow.

So “someone has a screw loose
someplace,” and you intend to do
something about it? Do you mean
Drs, Lanier and Puck have screws

loose? Do you mean they are men-
; tally unsound, and therefore un-
suited for their jobs? Perhaps it
[|| would be best to leave the diagnos-
i tics to diagnosticians trained in
| such things. Besides, such state-
I ments are libelous. But what inter-
| ests us, is your intent to “do
I something” about it. What do you
intend to do, Governer? Have them
|
|
|
|

“investigated”? Have them pitched
out of their jobs? Have them si-
lenced?

No, you think they should be
arrested!

Now we come to the reason. It
comes in your “charge” that “sci-
entists are seeking a ban on A-
bombs.” You say
| nationwide
Wy scientists, which is “most damag-
Wi) ing to the defenses of the free
| world.“ In short, you are calling
i American scientists traitors. Vou
|
|

it is part of a
drive by American

wish Drs. Lanier and Puck arrested

26 MVSTIC

for treachery. If they were in the
army, you would have them shot.

You say: “We must not permit
the defenses against the free world’s
arch enemy, persisting in plans for
world domination, to. be weakened
by wild and, probably, baseless spe-
culation about the genetics of future
generations.” You go on to say that:
“Their employment of ‘fright’ tech-
nique is most damaging to the de-
fenses of the free world.” Then you
add: “Fallout in this case merely
provided a vehicle upon which to
launch a well-planned attack upon
the atomic defenses of the United
States.”

We are pleased to note that you
do not quibble, Governor. You say
things quite clearly, so that there
can be no mistake. No amount of
verbiage could get you out of the
spot in which you have placed
yourself. You even confirm your
position as an “official” one, by
stating that you speak as à mem-
ber of the congressional atomic
energy committee “from the time
the first A-bombs were exploded
at Hiroshima and Nagasaki.”
That’s quite along time . to be
holding these opinions, Governor,
and leave little doubt that they are
not just transient ones, r

You are against free speech. You
think it should not be permitted,
not in atomic matters. No matter
what the danger to future citizens,
to holy hell with them! You > will

n consider for a moment if
anger is a serious one, perhaps
than the arch enemy“ you
esperately fearful will beat
the atomic punch that will
ir oy us all. You would arrest
n who ventures an opinion
atomic bomb program
ly way contrary to the
horrible purpose of
g a “punch” which the
ly cannot possibly survive.
pripen, Governor, can’t we
ans have our say? Since
“a few make the decisions
ny? Since when can the
be used in the way
on using it?

neve you the slightest
8. y right here that
is aware of the
atomic war, and what
enemy“ (you must have
in the highschool
) can do to us. As
e will prepare to de-
We always have
good job of it), and
will. And so far, we've
it despite the handicap
open our mouths
please. We intend

us, But one

ATOMIC BILL OF RIGHTS

27

the testing of a weapon might pos-
sibly prove to be an unsuspected
danger even greater than an atom
war, we aren’t going to stick our
heads in the sand like an ostrich
and ignore it. We don’t let down
our pants in one direction to keep
our shirt on in the other.

After we've tested all the
bombs, Governor, and we have
our “defense” all set up and wait-
ing, what then? Do we just wait
until the “arch enemy” has like-
wise equipped himself? You'll have
to agree that that is exactly what
we will do. Inevitably, no matter
what our haste, we will have to let
them catch up on us. And perhaps
you think this sort of a stalemate
will solve the problem, safeguard
our “free world”? Perhaps it may.
As long as the bomb is here, we
sincerely hope it will. It’s better to
have a bomb we never use, than not

‘to have one while the arch enemy

does, and uses it on us. l
But, Governor, what if we find,
after we've won the atom-bomb
race, that our success has created
a frankenstein that will then pro-
ceed to subject us to horror upon
horror, and even wipe us out,
without a single warlike move on
either our part or on the part of the
arch enemy? These scientists be-

- lieve they have good and sufficient

evidence (not just wild and base-
less speculation) that such can be
the case. They want the danger

28

recognized, and steps taken to
avert it. We want those steps taken.
And we won't tolerate you deny-
ing us the right to take them. We
won't have a careless man on our
atomic energy committee it’s too
important to be manned by any-
thing but the best brains. And we
Won't, most of all, have any sort of
intolerance. We won't have our
Bill -of Rights superceded by a
desperate “stop-gap” oppression
in the name of expediency. We came
away from the Old World to gain
these freedoms (which are now
Spreading ever wider beyond our
boundaries) and we don’t intend
to give them up, in the slightest
jota.

We're going to talk, ‘Governor,
‘and you are going to listen at least
for the time being. . . we doubt if
you'll be there to listen after the
next election. (We don’t believe
the people of Colorado vote for the
things you declare we must have
“or there will be no future genera-
‘tions of Americans.) Rather, the

© MYSTIC

people of Colorado will join with |
the people of the rest of these free
United States, in making every
conceivable effort to make sure
that we have not overlooked a
single danger to our future as a
free people. Those of us who are
parents don’t give a hoot for our
own lives, if saving them means the
death of our children. It’s our kids
we're fighting for, and ‘we won't
risk them needlessly by a rash and
ill-advised course. ‘

Governor, you are out of order,
and anybody who talks like you is
also out of order. We've got too
much of that sort of thing and we
think it had better come to à halt
right now. If you're any kind of
man, you'll apologize to Drs.
Lanier and Puck, and to the Am-
erican people.

If you mean well, itll be easy
to do, and we'll be the first to
cheer for you. We'll yell our ton-
sils out—because that’s the way
we do things in America, Gover-
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EOPLE said that a white

gull haunted Dune Harbor.

He was there every summer,
and there was never another like
him, neither so large nor so white
— unless since he died a prototype
has taken his place.

He was a tradition. New crops of
children watched for him, and dif-
ferent pairs of lovers. He had ac-
quired a name; the natives would
say “Diamond Eye is back again,”
and the summer people came to say
it too, His planing wings burned in
the sunshine as though the snowy
plumage were tipped with silver or
platinum and powdered with dia-
mond dust; and you could see the
flash of his eye as he wheeled by on
the wind.

For some reason the younger
children seemed to pity him.

“He’s lonesome because he isn’t
like the others!” they said.

*

To Mavis Allister, the gull was a
poignant symbol. Sometimes his
free soaring tugged at her heart, and
sometimes his flight was like the
white fire of a thrown lance, and

Je WHITE GULL
Bi

y
EVERIL WORRELL

pierced her through with too sharp
memory.

Twenty years had changed the
outside world,. but not the lonely
little place that was Dune Harbor,
nor the lonely remembering place
inside of Mavis. They had, strange-
ly, affected her golden beauty
very little, either. She was, she
thought (not for the first time, nor
without a trace of bitterness), like
Diamond Eye; a storied tradition
of the beach town.

The wife of an FBI man does
not always know whether she may
keep him long, Mavis had kept her
man all of two years. Then Tony
Vincella got out of jail and came
down to Dune Harbor and shot
Kerry, who had not been warned
of the jail break.

Tony Vincella had had other
ideas on that day in June. He had
found Mavis at the cottage alone,
and had her all neatly tied into a
chair when Kerry came in from a
swim. Mavis’ shoulder still wore the
scar of a cigarette burn.

Tony’s fun was cut short when
Kerry arrived, but Tony’s gun got

Sometimes the only way
bring to you a message

fony ran and Kerry died,
that people came to help.
d never been caught.
fell into unconsciousness
fully—there was always
thankful for. Before he
d said the thing that
9 nobody and tried not
b Kerry was dying
e delirious—but grief
$ do well not to
asy to their bosoms, Ma-
‘Her mitld gave way,
You know, I think she
»

thing must not be
of Mavis Allison.
statement she
s, offsetting her
s last words.
‘en them slowly

— seek-

an important message

kan be put across is by means of a symbol.
Perhaps this story is such a symbol. May it

from. . . over there,

so bad —

“Mavis, my love —” now almost
inaudibly: “I can’t see myself as a
dove, can you? Maybe a sea gull.
And not just to be silly, but to
watch over you! That devil, Vin-
cella. If they shouldn’t get him—
he has the memory of an el —”

He seemed asleep, when he was
gone. It was the next summer that
the white gull first showed up at
Dune Harbor.

* Mi

Diamond Eye soared high and
low today; up to the altitude of an
eagle's sentinel eyrie; seaward and
back to the cottage, planing low.

Once in winter Mavis had been
drawn to the beach house, irresis-
tibly. To see if the white gull would
be there too? Nobody had ever
spoken of seeing him in winter;
but she came down to see.

He was theres he circled the
house at midnight. White the snow
in the moonlight; black ebony the
ocean torn with gnashing lines of
foam; whiter, the flash of his
wings.

Inside, the smell and warmth of

*

32
| driftwood burning out in the fire-
I place. Firelight reflected from the
leaded panes. Just beyond them and
so near, those beating wings strong
- to ride out any gale.

| H _ Mavis’ hand went to the case-
|

|

ment hasp. The bright eyes flashed
into hers; then had come her

y shuddering withdrawal, and her col-

. lapse into wild tears that were

half of terror.

— “Let me keep sane. I mustn't be-

| ~ lieve, I mustn’t think —”

|. ‘She had never come again in

6 2 winter.

* * *

No she on the front steps,
l the summer sun hot on her, chil-

~ drems voices sounding near, yet lost
es in time and space.
Get up and go in. Start dinner.
Carol and Lee are on the way out
l now!“ she ordered herself sharply,
* and stood up
. . the man com-
pe |” ie slowly up the flagged walk.
Little and dark he was, and aging;
1 but she knew those half mad cruel
la eyes as if she had looked into them
| yesterday.
= “TPs been twenty years — and
I e spent most of them back in
i Ttaly,” the thin mouth pronounced
E.: gently. “I've a new visa and a new
name, and still I waited to be sure
I wasn’t being watched. You
haven't changed!” he threw out

| , suddenly, resentfully. “I have, but

Pa know you anywhere. Well, you

TATA Ey eee re T

UNNA

VEN

always came 13 here, I heard!
You’ve waited all this time for the
rest of what I promised Kerry
Allison I'd do—”

A car was coming fast along the
highway behind the house, its siren
howling. He kas been watched, and
they are after him now, Mavis
thought. They'll be here just too
late for me, as they were too late
for Kerry.

The short, sharp burst of the
death-thunder came then, and the
smoke,

Came, too, a silver-flaming thing

with wide sweep of beating wings.

It flew blindingly close to Mavis,
poised before her. Truly a flung
lance — Oh, no! A shield.

For an instant afterward, a fury
of lopsided straining pinions beat
about the narrow skull-head of the
little man who dropped his gun and
ran — straight into the arms of two
who came to meet him.

But Mavis knelt on the patch of
green by the flagged walk while the
gull’s head sank lower until it lay
flat on the grass. The wings were
spread, the bright eyes glazed; and
on the white breast-feathers a
round red spot shone in the sunlight
like a royal ruby.

Mavis felt that her heart was
torn open like the heart of the
gull. Yet this was a healing pain, a
winged pain, a thing to lift a heart
long drooping. A great gift! had been

~ given; yes, the ait of- 15 but

a

g i z 4 fa J7 ï
g i 25 . 1
. sal A eA

a

re, for it was indestructible. In-
ple awareness of indes-
life? Something to wear
„like a diadem of price-
liamonds and rubies.
T doubt love is immortal —
think it wrong to believe
les?” she wondered. And
Ves, I knew it was Tony
Kerry said— he had a
like an elephant.” For, as
other day, she was surround-
by neighbors and friends.
, the white gull is
were saying. He'll
ne again!“

atl the nearest to

rath ec
7

e ere. Oh, you must
Said. “Nothing is

lle, N.

al body

THE WHITE GULL

taid, Shr a a strange power of concentration’

— ——— ee =

33

ever just all gone!”

An eight-year old regarded her
searchingly, dark eyes troubled.

“The bad man with the gun —
he’s gone!” he insisted, “With the
men who took. him, Then, will he
come again!”

Mavis sought words to clothe a

truth, 4
“Maybe he — or his badness —

isn’t just quite real!” she told
him. “All he could ever do was so
much less — really — than he

thought it was!”

And it came to her as something
strange when she realized that the
children understood. When they
grew older, they would partly for-
get; but today in the sun and the

salt wind they understood, and
their crying stopped.
THE END

P EXPERIENCE DOESN'T CHECK OUT?

© Ch ief Jack Heard, (of Houston, Texas) was somewhat perplexed
m Weeks oe hypnotist and founder of the Psychical Research
C.

r was asking for verification of an incident which, he said, he
but in a “reputable magazine.

: author, H. J. Jolet of Columbus, Ohio, told in the article of
lor vagrancy and selling pencils without a license.
related, by “a strange power of concentration,” the au-

” (See June 58 MYSTIC,—Ed.)

from the jail and reappear in Peoria, Ill.

5 Mr. Parker said, “If this happened the
it the rest of their lives.” But no one recalls

1 W. N. Daut failed to show that an

WHAT ARE THE

By
Max B.

Miller

President: FLYING SAUCERS INTERNATIONAL

INCE that momentous day of

June 24th, 1947, when pilot

Kenneth Arnold reported see-
ing nine shining “saucer like” ob-
jects flying at 1,200 miles per hour
over the Cascade mountain range
of Western Washington, the undy-
ing controversy of the flying sau-
cers has been raging.

Volumes of material has been
published on the subject. This in-
_ cludes more than two dozen books,
thousands of magazine articles, and
countless material appearing in
newspapers and journals through-
out the world.

There are hundreds of organiza-
tions in this country and others de-
voting their time to solve this—one
of the most baffling mysteries of
all times.

Elliott Rockmore, President of
the Flying Saucer Researchers of
Brooklyn, estimates that he re-

34

ceived from four to six hundred
flying saucer sightings from news-
paper sources in mid-summer
1952, rivaling the Air Forces own
files.

The Air Force claimed that 1952
was the “bumper crop” year for re-
ports. They received 1700 in all.

The Air Force has maintained,
since the inception of flying sau-
cers, that they have no evidence
which would lead them to believe
in their existence.

Their latest report tells us:

“The majority of sightings could
be accounted for as misinterpreta-
tions of conventional objects,
such as balloons and aircraft.
Others could be explained as met-
eorologial phenomena or light re-
flections from crystalized particles
in the upper atmosphere. Some were
determined to be hoaxes. However,
there still remained a few unex-

es
14 *
n

| | *

sightings.

Force has stated in the
eaffirms at the present
unexplained aerial phe-
e not a secret weapon,

1
‘

ING SAUCERS? __.

Council of the International Flying Saucer Bureau of
cticut; an honorary member of Saucer Phenomena And
$ West Haven, Connecticut; and a United States ob-
alian Flying Saucer Bureau of Fairfield, Australia, ;

laucers International made world history in August of last

ie tae tee We ex el, See cS ae
~ . * N i ; R y T NE *
K

4

— — ‘

— = = =

ported phenomena.

“By the same token, no auth-

entic physical evidence has been
received establishing the existence
of space ships from other planets.”

Although it may not look like it,

‘when it held the World’s First Flying Saucer Convention in

ing saucers.

ig Saucers International. It is believed to have tlie
culation of any magazine of this type. k

oy

rtments nor any
Government is
is, classified

“there ain’t no sech things.”

three days. Close to 1500 people attended this gathering, Ñ
kind ever held, to hear the world’s foremost authorities on

3 Miller published the first issue of SAUCERS — official )

this is a much more liberal state-
ment than those the Air Force is-
sued in the early part of its inves-
tigation, assuming the attitude of

Reports of that time were usual-

E S 4
— — a IS a Dy

‘ly taken by officials with a shrug
of their shoulders and mumblings
of “hoaxes” or “hallucinations.”

In late July 1952 came the
“crisis.”

Twice, in the period of one week,
unidentified flying objects (the
name the Air Force prefers over
“flying saucers”) invaded the na-
tion’s capitol.

Visual and radar sightings were
made.

The “objects” were over the
White House and Capitol Build-
ing! Jets were hurried aloft.

Three objects outmaneuvered the
jets at every turn.

When our fastest interceptors
were sent into a critical area,“
the objects would vanish. When the
planes were gone, the objects reap-

!

Careful, reliable radar operators
hose reputations must be of the
highest to man the Air Control
towers of our Capitol and surround-
ing area—calculated the objects to
have a velocity of up to two miles
per second; 7,200 miles per hour!

No aircraft on earth has such

speed.

As the headlines of this event
flashed across the nation, public
demands of the Air Force were as-

Several, days later, the ‘Afr

Force held a press conference. Ma-

jor General John A. Samford,
Chief of Air Force Intelligence

found a one degree inyersion th

with several aides discussed the as:
pects of the flying saucers, includ
ing the Washington sightings.
Samford debunked saucers all
around, saying the Washington
sightings were temperature inver
sions, )
This theory was . more-or-less
originated by one Donald H. Men-
zel, Professor of Astrophysics at
Harvard University.
Temperature inversions, strong
enough to give a radar “echo,”
would have to be eight to ten de
grees Fahrenheit.
Major Donald E. Keyhoe, |
USMC, retired, author of th
best seller, “Flying Saucers From
Outer Space,” checked the offi
cial Weather Bureau figures. H

first night, two degrees the second

When he questioned Majo
Lewis S. Norman, Jr. about it,
was told that temperature inversion
couldn’t possibly explain the Wash
ington sightings. Major
was allowed to quote him as an o
ficial Air Force spokesman.

Early in 1953, Major Genera
Samford was quoted in a na
tional magazine as saying:

“The theory is 88
has not yet been proved. There-
fore the Air Force cannot yet ac-
cept it a a satisfactory explana
tion. Furthermore, it would not ac
count for all reports, by any means.

Other statements from “Projec

Keyno

(official investigating
unidentified flying ob-
Wright-Patterson Air
) virtually eliminated
nation as a satisfactory
to flying saucers.

n Walter Karig, Special
‘to Chief of Information,
Navy, clinched the matter
said in the American
magazine: “Reflected
or images and the like,
md back a radar return.”
he Air Force’s initial in-
a in 1949, it had but 34
unexplained.
they claimed to have
but twenty per cent of
sightings (a large por-
ese came from pilots and
ed observers). All but
ity they claimed, had
in 1953.
er 2gth, 1952 an un-
came in from north-

About seven-thirty
Force base received a
several unidentified
¢ crew of a B-26. The
‘slow to intercept.
er that, radar operators

picked up an object on

rty-five the pilot of
* the same

minutes

WHAT ARE THE FLYING SAUCERS?

37

Colonel Low climbed to 35,000.
He saw the lights were revolving
ina counter-clockwise direction.
The rotation was between eight
and twelve times a minute.

As if he wasn’t puzzled enough,
the colonel saw three shafts of white
light shining outward—as though
the lower part of the object was
revolving while another part was
stationary.

As he approached the object, he
switched off his cockpit lights. This
was proof that it could not have
been a canopy reflection.

Low raced to intercept the ob-
ject’ at over five hundred miles per
hour. The object apparently didn’t
see his plane for several seconds,
but then it increased its speed and
diasppeared in thirty seconds.

Five minutes later, the colonel
saw the object again and again
tried to intercept, but this time
keeping his cockpit lights on, The
object speed out of sight in five
seconds.

The official Air Force conclu-

on: “Probably Astronomical,” in-
timating that the pilot was chas-
ing the planet Jupiter. This is a
clear indication of what the Air

Force terms as “explained” sight-

ings.
Albert M. Chop spent one and a
half years with the Air Technical
Intelligence Center at Wright-
Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio
and two years on the ae Force

Wwe the

38 : MYSTIC

Press Desk (as head of the “un-
identified flying objects” branch of
the Office of Public Information)
of the Air Force.

An insight of his background is
given to make one realize the im-
port of his opinions.

Albert M. Chop believes in the
reality of flying saucers and their
interplanetary origin. He even went
so far as to tell columnist Matt
Weinstock of the Los Angeles Daily
News: ‘

“How can you write off as a
mirage an object that appears on
a radar screen, then is seen being
chased by a jet interceptor equip-
ped with radar, then maneuvers at
speeds up to 5000 miles per hour,
making sharp angle turns that are
impossible in any craft that engin-
eers conceive?”

Let us look into just one pertin-
ent sighting and try to apply the
Air Force’s explanations of “mis-
interpretations of conventional ob-
jects, such as balloons and aircraft,”
“meteorological phenomena;” “light
reflections from crystalized par-
ticles in the upper atmosphere;
and “hoaxes.” The story originally
appeared in the Ontario (Califor-
nia) Daily Report.

On the morning of September 22,
1953 Robert Starr, Northup Air-
craft field inspector and a first
lieutenant in the roth Fighter
Squadron of the California Na-
tional Guard; Richard Lierd and

ROER

Houseman, mechanics; and Mui
Funk, crew chief were working o1
an F-8ọ jet parked on a repai
apron at the Ontario Internationa
Airport when the strange phenom
enon was first sighted.

Lieutenant Starr said the over
head flight of a strange jet plane at
tracted their attention because the:
knew from the engine sound that i
was not a Northup craft.

They looked up to spot th
plane and saw a dark cigar-shape
object falling through space, whic!
they first believed to be a jetti
soned wing tip-tank.

“We wondered why the pilot hai
jettisoned the tip-tank,” Starr re
lated, “and watched as it tumble
end over end, free-falling toward th
ground. We watched it for six o
eight—maybe ten seconds befor
the object suddenly stopped it
fall and seemed to change i
shape.”

He said the four men were i
agreement on what they saw, adc
ing:

“It seemed to change once halte
in the air and became circular wit
a luminous sheen. It streaked t
the north disappearing in fiv
seconds.”

Starr said he had been aroun
aircraft for a long time and ha
made countless observations bu
had never seen anything eve
faintly similar to what they sa’
at that time.

said: “I would be afraid to
it the altitude of the craft
‘speed. But it flew faster than
ling I have ever seen in the
aircraft and I've watched a
any high speed experimental
by the Army.”
it aren't these objects?
The possibility of a
be eliminated by noting
cations of these four men:
chief, and -mechanics.
Phe possibilities of a mass
fation appears virtually im-
for the same reasons as
svious. Four qualified obser-
cially in their positions)
seem to be subject to
s of this type.
Misinterpretations of con-
| objects” could not ac-
the characteristics and
€tability of this object as
. This includes balloons and

_ “Meteorological pheno-
ould not appear as a dark
article falling in space,
g in mid-air. turning to
“disc-shaped” form
os. and shoot off

e and disappear in five

ht reflections from
i particles in the upper
same as above.
„was the object?

‘ly very real, of an
„Lieutenant Starr’s

r 0

WHAT ARE THE FLYING SAUCERS?

39

statement: . It flew faster
than anything I have ever seen in
the way of aircraft and I’ve watch-
ed a good many high-speed exper-
imental flights by the Army” and
saying that he had been around
aircraft for a long time and had
had made countless observations but
had never seen anything even
faintly similar to what they saw at
that time, identifies it as seemingly
alien to us.

How do the other countries take
the flying saucers?

On November 11th, 1953 the
news was flashed around the world,
by all leading news services, that
the world’s first official flying sau-
cer sighting station had been es-
tablished in Canada.

Harold Greer, in the Toronto
Daily Star, gives probably the best
account of this:

“The world’s first scientific fly-
ing saucer sighting station is being
constructed by Canadian electronic
engineers at Shirley’s Bay,” ten
miles northwest of Ottawa.

“The work of ‘Project Magnet’
—code name for the secret deve-
lopment of a flying disc powered by
electromagnetic propulsion — the
station is being equipped with
every conceivable type of recording
device in the hope of obtaining the
scientific measurements necessary
to prove or disprove the existence
of flying saucers.

“When completed, the station

40 l
will be manned twenty-four hoùrs
a day. It will contain the various
types of radar, an ionosphere re-
corder, a magnetometer to measure
electrical charge, a recording gravo-
meter to measure gravity and a
radio set running full volume at
530 kilocycles to pick up any radio
noise.” (why 530?—Ed)
The article goes on to say:
“Project Magnet’ researchers
have found that flying saucer re-
ports have come in flurries about
two years and two months apart.
It may or may not be significant
that they have occurred when the
planet Mars has been in opposition
to the earth and that reports are
most frequent when Mars reaches
its closest point to the earth...
Since the board began system-
atic investigation of flying saucer
sightings early in 1952, heavy. sec-
recy has surrounded the work. It
is known, however, that a consider-
able number of reports have been
received on the special forms
printed in order to obtain as much
precise observation as possible from
the person or instrument making
the sighting. While not called clas-
sified material, these forms are
held to be ‘for official use only.“
The board has never published any
analysis of them or made any re-
port on progress of the investiga-

= MYSTIC

=

from coast to coast and sea cap-
tains beyond that, all under stand-
ing instruction to report
phenomena; it supplies by far the
bulk of the sighting reports.”

Wilbur B. Smith is engineer in
charge of “Project Magnet.” in
the telecommunications division of
the Canadian Department of
Transport. He told the Canadian
Press news service:

“There is a high degree of prob-
ability that they (the flying sau-
cers)do exist and are interplane-
tary.”

Smith claims that there is a
ninety to ninety-five per cent prob-

ability that flying saucers do exist:

sixty per cent probability that
they are “alien vehicles,” ten per
cent probability they originate
here on Earth, and a thirty per
cent probability that they are in-
conceivable to man—such as some
form of time travel involving a
form of life other than protoplasm.

The article in the Daily Star
concludes:

* It is generally agreed that
the average layman would con-
clude from the more dramatic sight-
ing reports that flying saucers do
indeed exist.

“One of the Canadian sightings,
for example, took place over an
airport at night. Several perons
saw a disc-like object moving at
low altitude over the field at
about sixty miles an hour. A search-

WHAT ARE THE FLYING SAUCERS? Al

t caught the object in its beam saucers are real objects, and are
ra moment, at which point it not caused by meteors, hallucina-
sd skyward at an incredible tions, or any atmospheric freaks,”
Sightings of this kind, it is Getting back to this country, we
d, are by no means rare find reference to flying saucers by
Frank Edwards, former news com-
mentator over the Mutual Broad-
casting System network,
„Top scientists,” Edwards re-
lated, “whose identity I am not at
to reveal... have been

Let us see what Australia has to

about flying saucers:
‘MELBOURNE, January oth
4—An RAAF officer in Mel-
me revealed today that the liberty
had been investigating fly- been investigating the phenomena
A cer reports since 1947. of unidentified aerial objects
he officer said that an Intel- since 1947; analysing samples of
ice Officer usually interviewed various types; inspecting every bit
le who reported flying objects. of evidence, for whatever could be
fhe officer said that the RAAF learned from it. With their permis-
sping an open mind on the sion I can read to you this one
significant paragraph from their

ce of the objects. He. added,
, from the information statement to me, dated September

1. 43
ave ved, that the objects 8, 1953.”
ave an interplanetary source. Edwards quotes:
“Our research in this matter

pple on earth should be able

into outer space within about leads us to believe that these un-
vea s. Why shouldn't people identified flying objects are ob-
nete have already reach- servation vehicles from another
| 5 stage?” planet and further that this in-
re that, Australia again made formation is being kept from the
lewspapers.. people. A statistical analysis of the
Australian Flying Saucer evidence collected thus far proves
tion Committee is com- without doubt that we are dealing
extra-terrestrial influences

of twelve members, including with
i chemists, an elec- from an unknown source.”

engineer, a civil N On the night of July 14th, 1952
ye astronomers. rst Officer William B. Nash and
ime ist, 1953 they an- and Officer William H. Forten-
at, after three months’ bery, pilots for the Pan American
hey had formed the conclu- World Airways, saw eight flying
at “some so-called flying saucers two thousand feet below
* un

bd

MYSTIC

them while flying over Norfolk,
Virginia. The Air Force made an
investigation of this incident with
the usual “Conclusion: Unknown.“
Besides being a senior pilot,
William B. Nash is a 2nd Lieu-
tenant in the United States Re-
Serve; a man well qualified on the
subject of flying saucers. He made
the following statement in the
March 1954 Mystic magazine:
“Tt must be obvious to every-
one by now that our world is
being systematically explored by
visitors from another planet
Arthur Louis Joquel II is a
noted authority on rocketry and
Space travel; is author of the

popular book, “The Challenge of

Space.” He voiced this opinion in
the March 1954 magazine:

“For hundreds, or even thou-
sands, of years, obervations and
reports have been made regarding
these objects. Accurate, well-
trained, impartial witnesses have
described them, using almost the
same terms in all ages and times.
There have been sufficient re-
ports concerning these objects
made by scientists, military per-
sonnel, and trained civilians, to
have removed any doubts as to
their existence.

No country on Earth could
have built such vehicles hundreds
of years ago. It would strain the
ability of any country today to

develop such flying objects, and to
construct, test, and launch them,
and furthermore keep their place
of origin a secret. It seems much
more logical, under the circum-
stanes, that flying disks have their
place of origin somewhere in
space, and visit the earth for some
reason or purpose.”

What are the flying saucers?

Without having our sanity ques-
tioned, and in the hope of not
being called “crackpots, illiterates,
and cultists,” I think we can safely
draw the following conclusions:

I. Flying saucers are very
real and material objects. 4

2. Flying saucers have as their
place of origin, a source (or sources)
outside of this planet.

3. Flying saucers have been
visiting this planet for several
hundred or thousand years.

4. Flying saucers are appar-
ently of friendly intent, having
made no direct hostile move to this
date.

5. When and if we make
contact with the flying saucers, it
will undoubtedly change our every
way of life.

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DREAMS THAT CAME TRUE

EOPLE often have marvelled both dreamed one night that
Pa the way my sister Frances father had returned home on the
and I dream dreams that come morning train. Next morning we
true. Each morning after such discussed this dream at length.
a dream we would discuss it with “It is strange we both dreamed
each other and declare it was a
fact, and that it would come true.
My father was called to Detroit,
Michigan to work. We all missed
him very much and after he had
been gone about two months we

&i Da.
vay vad ibsvol eye's e sn bas

Vell,” said Frances, “I won't
but I know he is on his way
this minute.”

minutes later, mother
into the room and we told
about our dreams. We were
gers, and mother thought we
‘silly for words.

father is not coming
for another month, so
sy with your work around
ind stop gabbing.”

minutes later we heard
one pounding on the front
“That’s father,” we told

ignored us and went to the
stood father with his
‘leather suitcase in his hand.
t it down and kissed us as
to meet him.

her threw up her hands in
but did not tell father
melee She did not
encourage us in this idea
hing into the future.
father was called to St.
burgh Fla. to work. After
been there several
my sister, May came home
bringing her three
he spent the day, then
1e. There was a paper-
ng her home. She
to the living room, where
Ñ tood in front of the

Ther.

TT HAPPENED TO ME... 38

room to room, exclaiming in ex-
citement over the pretty walls.
Suddenly May’s dress caught fire.
She had stood too close to the
flames. Terrified, she ran wildly
out of the house, into the yard,
screaming, her burning dress
fanned by the high winds of winter.
The paperhanger ran after her,
but he could not catch her, as she
fought wildly. Finally he grabbed
her and rolled her over and over
on the damp ground, while putting
out the blaze with his hands.

My sister suffered third degree
burns, and her hands, back and
legs were hanging - shreds of
scorched flesh. She was in a ser-
ious condition and was rushed to
the hospital where she lay for
months fighting for her life.

My father in St. Petersburg,
Fla. said he was awakened in the
“middle of the night. He hearda
voice, May’s voice, screaming, “Oh
Father, help me! Help me! I am
so badly hurt.” He jumped from
his bed in terror, dressed and came
home,

“How did you know, father?” we
all asked.

“May told me. I heard her call-
ing me so pitifully and I had to
come to her,” he said sadly.” How
bad, is she?”

46

much. Those scars, even though she
has had plastic surgery; remain
clearly on her beautiful body to-
day.

I was once visiting my in-laws,
whom I liked and loved as if they
were my own people, down at
Clarksville, Tennessee. I had a
wonderful time and intended to
stay with them for another week. I
went to bed and was sound
asleep, when I saw my husband
appear before me and say,” Mary,
please come home, I am so sick
and lonely without you. I am in
bed with the flu and unable to get

up. You will find the money for
your train fare in a letter you will
get tomorrow. Go to the mail box
and get the money. Catch the
noon train, and come home as fast
as you can.”

I lay there in bed until dawn,
thinking of my husband there at
home with no one to look after
him, and I wanted more than
anything in the world to go to
him as fast as I could. I got up
and packed all my clothes.

My sister-in-law said,“ Mary,
what on earth are you doing? I
thought you were going to stay
with us another week. Please
don’t go.”

“T must,” I said, quietly. “I am
sorry, but Ray is ill and he wants
me to come home today. I will get
my train fare in the mail today and
then I'll catch the noon train, as

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he said, and go to him as fast as I
can.“

Mary, Mary, what on earth
has come over you. Did you get
a telegram or anything? If you
did, why didn’t you say some-
thing about it before? Why didn’t
you tell me, honey?”

“I didn’t know myself,” I told
her. “Ray talked to me in the
night and told me I would have
money in the mail today and that
he was ill and wanted me to come
home at once.”

“Are you goofy? Do you believe
in such fantastic things as that,
Mary? I’m surprised at you. You
are supposed to be an intelligent
human being.”

“You'll see when the mail
comes that I’m telling you the
truth, and I’m all ready to go to
the depot as soon as the train ar-
rives.”

The postman drove his old car
up to the mail box and placed
a large white envelope in it.
Ethel’s face was as white as a
ghost as she handed the letter to
me, not saying a word. I took the
letter and opened it and there fold-
ed between the sheets of paper
was my train fare. I took it out and
held it up for my sister-in-law to

see.

We walked back to the house,
got my suitcase and she drove me
to the depot. “Mary,” he said,
I can’t understand you. I believe

u are supernatural.”

ome dear friends of ours were
ferred to the Phillippine Is-
They had been there for
gut a year and were terribly dis-
ted with life and were sad and
ely to be so far from home and
lends. I wrote, them often. It took
it two months for a letter to
them, and get their answer

y friend wrote, “Pray for me
certain hour, or think of me
that hour and I'll be thinking
y It will seem that we are
ther, and we will be, in
rit.” Often we thought of each
Although these friends
‘on the other side of the
it seemed there was no dis-
e between us at the time of
ag together in spirit.

me night 1 heard one of these
ds call to me as I aroused

URING the months of Sep-
ember and October (1954) I

imented in psychic projection,
ie extent of locating a certain
for who is becoming a shining
in a field of learning for the
it of the human race at large.
i E est in contacting this per-
Sa purely selfish desire, but

Wi I had made the opening
ctive centered in— and

` — the folding and the un-

1

IT HAPPENED TO ME...

47

myself from a troubled sleep.
“Mary, Mary, I am so ill and so
lonely. This awful heat, and the in-
sects are just about to worry me to
death. There is no peace, no escape
from the blistering heat of the
tropics, no escape from anything
over here. Oh, how I wish I could
go home. I am so sick, Tropical
fever, I guess.“

I sat up in the bed. The voice
died away in the silent darkness
and my heart was sad. I prayed for
these friends, around the world
from me.

A few days later I had a radio-
gram from my friends, stating
they had been desperately ill at
that time I had the dream but were
recovering.

Mrs, M. L. Johnson

Kirkland Ave.,
Nashville, Tenn.

1034 West

SPACE IS BUT A THOUGHT AWAY

folding states, stages, stagnating
levels of consciousness, as I took
the mental blocks in turn and did
a few flip-flops in order to develop
the mind to the supra sub-conscious
measurements of the time com-
sumed in the mental operations.
To my knowledge, no one has
ever put any emphasis on supra
sub-consciousness and the levels
of its activity in pertaining to the
mental phase of) behavior— yet,

eA ses n sit ates II wait

48

the same may be listed as extra-
sensory perception in field learn-
ing.

It took a few trips to convince
me I was of no importance to any
psychological catagory as listed in
the book of learning, yet my ego
fluttered a bit in self-esteem as I
found I could separate my soul and
body and still be conscious of my
actions and the thought forms as
they had been presented and cata-
logued in the subjective mind for
future reference. The first contact
picture came when I walked along
a treelined driveway and entered
a large building. I stood alone for
some time in puzzled introspec-
tion before I realized where I was,
and why I was there. At first there
seemed to be floor, then gradually
a small section of flooring appear-
ed and a kneehole desk came into
view.

There was no one visible in the
room at the moment, but from a
section of the desk words were
coming slowly, forming sentences,
in which I was being welcomed.
Then a man took form and sat in
a swivel chair at the desk, his back
toward me. He was dressed in a
dark suit. Occasionally he swiveled
while he kept up a rhythmic tap
with the first finger of his right
hand. I stood directly back of the
man and couldn’t see his face, yet
it seemed we were directing a

thought in Unison in some pre-
—shoggselb YA ho sima sieaa

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arranged subject—a meeting in
which I had only a vague aware-
ness. I was not prepared for the
two women who appeared out of
nowhere and were asked to be
seated — one at each end of the
desk. I still stood back of the man
while he talked to the ladies. He
called one of them “Halka” and
the other one “Hedda.” Something
stirred in my thought processes and
strangely enough*I could remember
when I had been called by both of
the names at separate intervals. In
memory I knew both of them
very well.

I said to the man, “I have been
called by both of those names at
different periods, Just what does
that signify?”

Then he answered, “Those are
your personalities as opposites.
When appearing at the same time,
they may denote a split personal-
ity.”

I could not agree with this
statement. entirely and I said, “I
may be mixed up a bit as all of
this experiment is new to me, but
I do know that split personalities
are only words to cover the gaps in
all phases of consciousness.”

The man remained silent.

Back home again, I remembered
a mental picture thrown on the
screen would be focused upside
down and; no doubt, backward. I
was viewing the picture from a
wrong position. I should have been

i) tte bë-

d Jon the opposite side of the
acing the man to make the
act complete.
fowever, I could not stop
making my first contact
ection. I was wrapped in
ory of success and, of
e, trying to make self heard
his well-trained atmosphere. I
n the picture and it was beau-
‘at the moment. All I had to
as to make these learned
e conscious of my presence.

next visit, I was listening in
thesis of 3, 500 words. The
man was giving a lecture to
J lent class (this time in a white
and the time was evening).
me noticed me, so I took a
h the rest of the class, and
ed. The subject he was ex-
jing was centered around the
cle of matter, called the
‘on. He was saying, “The neu-
like the Roentgen Ray, per-
for the psychic body what
y accomplishes for the phy-
defects in construction of man.
neutron-light is so illum-
that it lays bare the divine
we may see self as God
where one may observe

3

IT HAPPENED TO ME —— ag

souls in their oneness with the ALL.

“Ts it too much to assume the
psychic body has an organism equal
in power and manifestation to the
functional organism of the physical
body? We do know much of the
physical development of the X-Ray
has helped in many ways to bring
to light the various ails and ills of
flesh and bone structure of the
physical self. The neutronic mea- -
sure deals with the mentality and is
the memory Ray of all time, A
continuum into other dimensions
and senses above the avers five
as we know them.”

Then came the morning when
he chose to see me. He called me
by name, shook my hand while he
asked, — “What have you to say
about it now Harriett?”

I answered, “What can I say
except that I am here, ready to
ask questions and hope for answers?

He asked me to be seated at his
desk while he sorted some papers
—then the picture faded and I was
back in my flat, in Detroit, in the
same position before the flight.

Harriett M. Gallagher
2117 Grand River Ave

Ja vironment of individual Detroit I, Mich.
OVER THE BORDER
, I lay in a only answer, “Oh, I’m so tired!” I

ye pen in a poor state of
e be ene

50 MYSTIC

ment and worry, for some time. It

was during the depression so I
often did not have enough to eat.
So it was that I ended up.in the
hospital.

Previous to this I had been
staying at a resort, trying to eke
out a living, but I felt myself be-
coming weaker and weaker. Then,
one day, I was sitting at my table
with a sheet of white paper before
me. I started to write. When I had
finished, these words appeared
before my eyes:

“Go back to your home. You are
very sick and you need to be with
your friends.”

I was startled into action, and
before the day was over, I had re-
turned to a dear friend of mine.
She put me to bed and worked over
me with cold compresses before she
called the doctor. If she had not
eared for me, I would have ceased
to breathe, for my lungs did not
want to operate. The doctor ordered
me at once to the hospital.

I slept like a baby during the
first hours I was there. My bed
was beside a screened window, and
in my waking hours I could see the
trees, rich in their green leaves,
and what seemed to me to be the
loveliest flower garden I had
ever seen, across the lawn. I think
now that I was impressed because
I was starved for love and beauty-
had been for years.

French woman who was being
treated for an illness that caused
her to become very excited at
times, so that I was obliged to bury
my head in my pillow to shut out
her babblings, which were mostly
in French. Even though it was a

sort of public ward' the nurses
treated her as if she were someone
very special.

To get away from her, I decided
to take a bath in one of the tubs
I had seen in the wash-room, It
was evening and the nurses were
getting the patients ready for their
night’s rest, so, unnoticed by any-
one, I put on my -kimono and left
the ward. I took my bath, but was
so weak I had difficulty in return-
ing to my bed. I dropped onto it,
kimono and all, and fell into a kind
of stupor. But I could still hear the
noises going on about me, for a
while. I heard a nurse give an im-
patient order.”

“Get that woman’s kimono off
her, nurse! She's —”

I heard no more, though I was
conscious of someone trying to
open my lips, before everything
blacked out around me.

I felt myself being moved from
the bed. It seemed that I was on a
cot, at first. Then I began to get
worried.

“Where are you taking me?” I
asked of the ‘attendant’ who was at
my side. I could not open my eyes,

In the bed next to mine lay a but 1 felt someone near.

“Your body is very sick, so we
e taking you out of it for a while,
Hil it can heal a little!“ came
e reply. There was a discussion
g on about me, but I could not
erstand what they were saying
Ness I asked a direct question.
was moving slowly. I felt my-
df being lifted to a little height
d T became anxious.

Where are we going now?” I

We are taking you out on the
through the window” —
But there is a screen on the
ndow. You can’t do that!”

Oh, yes we can, my dear! You
t quit your worrying, and you
ll be all right!”

wer the window-sill we went
d it did me no good to demur.
w many. were ‘taking’ me, I did
‘know, but they kept up a con-
ial conversation, and their tones
fe sweet and friendly.

hat am I lying on, please?”
mattress,” they said. A sort
avenly’ mattress. If you were
to see it, you couldn't. It’s
1 ent.“

seemed ridiculous to me,
ny mind got busy again.
an’t do this! Our night-
haven't any backs and III
ed! People will see me
r up, and they won't

of my companions laughed,

IT HAPPENED TO ME... 51

me that no one could see us, even
if they looked. The air was soft and
cool, and I could hear the leaves
rustling in the trees about me, and
what was more, I could not hear
any babblings from the woman
whose bed was next to mine.

I wish I could remember what
we talked about, that night, It was
all interesting to me then, but
nothing of the trend of the con-
versation has stayed in my mem-
ory. I think they were talking
about ‘heavenly things.’ We stayed
among the branches of the trees all
through the short night hours. Then
the birds began to twitter among the
leaves; the day was beginning to
‘break.’ I could hear the milk
wagons on the road as they pas-
sed on their daily task. If I tried
to open my eyes, I could see a
little, but I could not open them
very far.

“It’s time you were taking me
back!” I complained. “How are
you going to get me into the
building without being seen?”

“Through the window the same
way that we came out. Why are
you in such a hurry?”

“Tf anyone sees me before I get
into bed, it will be terrible!“ I
replied.

“We are going, now. You will
soon be safe and sound in your
little bed, and then we will have to
leave you.”

tried to explain to I could See ih building now. I

52 MYSTIC

could almost touch the grey stone
walls as we passed. I was lifted
over the window-sill. But for some

reason we stopped there 1 j

ent. $
I heard a scream.
“Nurse! Nurse! me

quick!“ The excited voi

French papel 3

sA eee
T was beck i in the room,

, A

K = 18 x

“Look for the mattress in the
corner, when it’s light!” admon-
lap 7 one of asin before Had left.

sudden. There stood the nurse at xe. nigh „ you stif
de

the foot of the “nervou
bed. I got a rear view
E would not have be

b
My guests of the night said hasty
farewells, and were gone.

N aunt of mine eh ates

cattle ranch in California. My
aunt and uncle went on a vacation
and they asked my mother and
` husband and I to stay on the ranch
and take care of it.
One day my husband and
mother went over to the far side of

‘the ranch to fix some fence. I was

—

my have altere l
i te 1 T had travelled ‘over

t ad night which
red m my pei outlook on
the

*

K
Name withheld by request

at home rather than go along

oily wis ironing in the kitchen when
something caused me to look out
the window. There is a spring about

a hundred yards from the house. .

It is surrounded by willow trees.
2 iets around

— , I CO ee IE

ry

am * trees, ‘ad when a first
him I thought my husband
jack until I took a good look.
With horror I realized the man

we as a body.

I forgot all about my fear of
; akes and decided to go over
ere my husband and mother

“hey asked me why I came, but
ouldn’t tell them for three days.
afraid they would laugh at

ince my early teens I had been
guided by prophecies and warnings
gh dreams, and had learned
to ignore them.

about 1917 I was living in the
small west coast town of
ota, Florida. An old time flag
e stood at the center of the
n before its largest hotel. The
artery of traffic came through
ain street, swung around the
g pole and proceeded at right
gles toward the Bay where it
ected Bay Shore Drive—the
ily automobile “speeding grounds”

dream one night I was sur-
to find myself in the pas-
eat of my car whereas I
i my own We.

thee x
. ir HAPPENED T TOME...

didn’t have a head. All I could see

THE SKELETON DRIVER si 7

“Finally, when 1 did tell them

about the incident, my mother A) k
said it wasn’t a laughing matter. “ye na
because a- man had been killed i j
there about three years before and | j
they never had found his head. He a4

has been seen by others, walking
around the spring, she said, and A
the saying is he comes back to W
and find his head.

. Bailey — 4
104 West Alameda a
Rosewell, New Mex. :

eden in a 55 black 1 =
deep black hood, There was .
personality indicated; no resem-
blame to any human being eair
just white bones and black shroud. a f
I awakened trembling in al
knowledge that it was a warning i
that I must heed. H J
By late afternoon, however, Ai
nothing unusual had occurred and
I completely forgot the incident. I
drove into town, around the flag
pole and toward Bay Shore Drive.
When within a few car-len
the Drive the dream flashed 1
fore me as if projected ben
screen. With no other reason for f;
doing so I slammed brakes and
skidded to a stop just as a a -A
driven by a drunken driver zi
‘Paste . ed sels enen at 80

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could almost touch the grey stone
walls as we passed. I was lifted

reason we stopped there ‘ion a mom- 25

ent.
I heard a scream.
“Nurse! Nurse!
quick!” The excited 5 x
French woman, came to

„Go to sheep, 2
There is nobody there!
is hardly morning, yet!”
ae

bed. I got a rear view oe 55
Which would not have been p
sible if I had been lying in
bed. I could see the o

My guests of the nig t said hasty x a

farewells, and were gone.

4 a: usual,

“Look for the mattress in the
1 W it's 9 admon-

Wben 1 898 everything was
the m rses sew in =

id ** know that things

pened that second night which
altered my whole outlook on
had travelled ‘over the

‘Name withheld by request

THE HEADLESS 1 MAN

N aunt of mine owned a big deat!
stayed at home rather than go along

cattle ranch in California. My
aunt and uncle went on a vacation
and they asked my mother and
` husband and I to stay on the ranch
and take care of it.
One day my husband and
mother went over to the far side of
the ranch to fix some fence. I was

ly afraid of snakes, so I

with them.

I was ironing in the kitchen when
something caused me to look out
the window. There is a spring about

Prt eo

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mong the trees, and when I first
aw him I thought my husband
Was back until I took a good look.
With horror I realized the man
didn’t have a head. All I could see
Was a body.
1 forgot all about my fear of
snakes and decided to go over
my husband and mother
ere!
‘hey asked me why I came, but
wouldn’t tell them for three days.
s afraid they would laugh at

Since my early teens I had been
uided by prophecies and warnings
hrough dreams, and had learned
ever to ignore them.
In about 1917 I was living in the
* west coast town of
: , Florida. An old time flag
0 Food at the center of the
own before its largest hotel. The
jair artery of traffic came through
fs main street, swung around the
pole and proceeded at right
les toward the Bay where it
intersected Bay Shore Drive—the
nly automobile “speeding grounds“
In a dream one night I was sur-
ised to find myself in the pas-
's seat of my car whereas I
s did my own driving.
ig toward the driver's seat
who my chauffeur might

* 4

IT HAPPENED TO ME. 53

Finally, when I did tell them
about the incident, my mother
said it wasn’t a laughing matter,
because a man had been killed
there about three years before and
they never had found his head. He
has been seen by others, walking
around the spring, she said, and
the saying is he comes back to try
and find his head.

Helen Bailey
104 West Alameda
Rosewell, New Mex.

THE SKELETON DRIVER

be I found him to be—death! A
skeleton in a long black robe and
deep black hood. There was no
personality indicated; no resem-
blame to any human being.

just white bones and black shroud.
I. awakened trembling in the
knowledge that it was a warning
that I must heed.

By late afternoon, however,
nothing unusual had occurred and
I completely forgot the incident. I
drove into town, around the flag
pole and toward Bay Shore Drive.
When within a few car-lengths of
the Drive the dream flashed be-
fore me as if projected upon a
screen. With no other reason for
doing so I slammed brakes and
skidded to a stop just as a car
driven by a drunken driver zig-zag-
ged meee sie intersection at top

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MYSTIC

speed. Without that warning I
could not have avoided being
hurled into the Bay.

/

Mera Gaskill,
429 Elder Drive
Claremont, Caljornia

SEEING DOUBLE

VEN now I am uncertain whe-
ther to believe in ghosts, but I

did come across a rather curious
piece of evidence the other day. My

father-in-law gave me a diary

which had belonged to an uncle of

his, one Henry Hancock.

It appears that Uncle Henry had
been a solicitor in the small
of Wiveliscombe until his death
some fifty years ago. He had also
had an office some nine miles
away in Bampton which he visited
twice a week, travelling in his one-

horse buggy alone. Back in those
days it was a lonely bit of country-
side between the two small towns.

The first entry in his diary re-

cords that while about half-way
home one moonlight winters night,
he became conscious of an over-
whelming feeling of foreboding. The
further he went the stronger it
grew, until he could stand it no
longer. Being a deeply religious
man he stopped the buggy and got
out. Kneeling beside the road, he
prayed earnestly for a few moments.
Presently, feeling the weight of
fear had been lifted from his

Shoulders, he continued his journey

and arrived home without mishap.

Some months later, in an entire-
lube Mui .

town

ly different entry, he records that
he was summoned to the bedside of
a dying farmer who wished to make
his will. While there the man ad-
mitted that he had a confession to
make, and asked Uncle Henry if he
could recall a certain lawsuit of
some years back, in which he, the

farmer, would have won had it not
been for a certain piece of evidence

produced by Uncle Henry. As a
result not only did he lose the
case but it also cost him several
hundred pounds.

So great was his anger that he
vowed a terrible revenge and had
lain in wait for the returning soli-
citor on the lonely Bampton road.
In his own words he continued:

“With murder in my heart I
Saw you coming sir, but just be-
fore you reached me you did a
strange thing. You stopped and
got out and knelt down, then after
a few minutes you came on. As
you drew level I saw there were
two of you and I was mercifully
prevented from committing a das-
tardly crime.”

Mrs. Barbara Hancock
Lemons Cottage
Atherington, Umberleigh,
N. Devon, England.

R I dreamed this story, or,
as mystics might say I'd
in through a psychic experience.
prevent any argument, let's say
reamed that I died in my sleep.
the ego, soul, or astral body,
it what you will, came out of
„carna covering and looked
m upon its physical counterpart
g in bed apparently not breath-
„This spirit- entity, identified
self, experienced a feeling of
freedom; mixed with the
ef one would sense when throw-
way an old, stained, thread-
Suit of clothes. My next
might was: “So I'm dead.
| what?” There was not the
lest feeling of sorrow at being
der in a dimension entirely
to me. But there was some
eliness; which, at the moment, I
ib ited to a desire to mix with
I thought of people I had
J found myself with them.
out any sensation of transi-
or going from here to there.
new way of thinking, their
ty problems were boresome to
Fo example: I thought of
in D. Roosevelt, who had
been inaugurated to his sec-
n office (this experience of
appened in 1937), and, as
ht of F. D. R., I was im-
ely projected into the White

IT HAPPENED TO ME... 55
A RINGSIDE SEAT WITH DEATH

House. There he and Jim Farley
were discussing the possibilities of
a third and fourth term in office,
and the second world war that was
to come.

To me they seemed like children
playing with armies of toy soldiers;

-not men who believed themselves

as shapers of destiny.

None of this was surprising to
me... because I knew that the
third and fourth term of office for
F. D. R. had already come about;
that death interrupted his fourth
term; and the second world war was
over with. It was like reading a
week-old newspaper. I got the im-
pression that the time element
with the living was like a clock
running slow. It seemed to me that
they thought only in the past.
Whereas, I was thinking in the
eternal NOW. And could see the
whole pattern, instead’ of only a
part of it» Perhaps clairvoyants
see only the NOW; but to others it
seems like the future.

As this thought is somewhat in-
volved, I would like to digress a
moment to give an example: One
evening we are admiring the beauty
of a star twinkling down upon us
from the firmament. To us that
is happening then and there. But
to a learned astronomer there is a
different picture. Because he
knows that particular star disin-

56 MYSTIC

tegrated millions of light-years ago,
and we are only just perceiving its
reflections.

Bored with the childishness of
the living, I felt lonesome for some
of my own kind ... the dead. In
a flash I was among them. It was
just as if I had suddenly been de-
posited in Grand Central station;
with “people” hurrying here and
there; with others standing in
small groups.

Moving over to a group of four,
two men and two women, I dis-
covered that three of them were
trying to convince the one woman
who couldn’t believe that she was
dead. There was no actual talking
as the living know it; instead, a
form of telepathy was the means
of communication. Mental-pictures
were rapidly transmitted from one
to the other. It was something like
turning one’s television set from
one station to the other, and im-
mediately getting a picture. It was
apparent to me that the barrier
of languages was overcome here.
Because the living had first to think
in images, and then form these
pictures into sounds that would be
understandable to another living
person.

The woman was very fright-
ened at the thought being con-
veyed to her. This was evidenced
by a blur of incoherent pictures;
showing her to be bordering on

hysteria.

To avoid confusion in the telling
of this anecdote, I will hereafter
write: he, she, or I “said” this or
that, just as though the living were
talking.
ile among the living I had
been an inveterate smoker, There-
fore, while tuning-in on this “con-
versation” of departed spirits, I
automatically fumbled for a cig-
arette. But, as soon as I felt the
desire for a smoke there was al-
ready a cigarette in my mouth and a
lighter in my hand. “This is going
to be good.” I thought. “I have
only to express a desire and imme-
diately it is manifested. Hey! I’d
better be careful of my thinking, or
I’m liable to manifest something
disagreeable; and not know how
to get rid of it.” Lighting the cig-
arette, I took the first deep inhala-
tion... but. . . there was no sen-
sation. In fact, there was nothing
but a picture of the smoke issuing

one’s imagination. I thought:
we carry over our desires . . . with-
out the ability to satisfy them
brother!” This was to be
tough. But I did feel glad that I
had not been an alcoholic or a

clo

i
i)

~
>

IT HAPPENED TO ME... 57
ater finding its own level”.

E these souls hurried past me

hey were constantly changing

lothes.

Presumably, as they

thought of what they would like to
, that too became manifest,

ed they were clothed accordingly.

And what a variety of costumes
. it was like a masquerade ball.
Looking around, I saw a large

K

man ion,

medi sval

built in all styles, from
to ultra-modern. Work-

nen were building additions to it.

And there was no sound of axe
r hammer. It was like watching
ent movie.
iosity moved me to enter
his monstrosity, and I saw that it
s furnished in every imaginable
; from conservative to the biz-
e, Inside there were many, many
Spirits sitting around on this poly-
lot furniture. They were “conver-
ing,” and the gist of their subjects
is their

arth. Thi

own frustrations while on
s made me think of some

f my own; with a feeling of re-

Bh
*
a

very

distinguished-looking old

dy, dressed in mid-Victorian
tyle, was sitting on a Turkish
leaning her chin on a gold-
aded cane. Her piercing black
e must

oughts,

been observing me. And
have picked up my
because she said: “Don’t

too much about the things

veren

't able to do while among

ng. All of those things you

Tet

„ e Ane

can do over here. If you want to
enough.“

“But how?” I asked d
ly. They were matters that were
only essential on earth. There would
be no purpose to them here.“

She answered, “Young man,
being new on this plane you have
much to learn. Look around. Do
you see such a great deal of differ-
ence between us and the living?”

Looking around, I saw a large
gold-framed mirror on the wall op-
posite me, but could see no reflec-
tion of myself in it. The little old
lady had referred to me as “young
man;” could it be that these entities
only saw each other in the form in
which the other soul was pictured
in their thoughts? Because, when
I left the body on earth it had
been middle-aged. I might be a
young soul, but I certainly wasn’t
a young man.

As I turned to look at her again
I found that she had changed into_
a young, and very beautiful woman.

“Don’t look so surprised,” she
said, smiling. “You thought of me
as being old, first because of the
style of dress, and second because
of the elderly manner in which I
was addressing you. There is no
age here. We are as young or old as
we think we are; or as another
soul thinks of us. When I passed
over, it was in the era that this
type of dress was worn; therefore
I feel more at home in it.”

MYSTIC

could almost touch the grey stone
walls as we passed. I was lifted

reason we stopped there ‘ion a mom- 25

ent.
I heard a scream.
“Nurse! Nurse!
quick!” The excited 5 x
French woman, came to

„Go to sheep, 2
There is nobody there!
is hardly morning, yet!”
ae

bed. I got a rear view oe 55
Which would not have been p
sible if I had been lying in
bed. I could see the o

My guests of the nig t said hasty x a

farewells, and were gone.

4 a: usual,

“Look for the mattress in the
1 W it's 9 admon-

Wben 1 898 everything was
the m rses sew in =

id ** know that things

pened that second night which
altered my whole outlook on
had travelled ‘over the

‘Name withheld by request

THE HEADLESS 1 MAN

N aunt of mine owned a big deat!
stayed at home rather than go along

cattle ranch in California. My
aunt and uncle went on a vacation
and they asked my mother and
` husband and I to stay on the ranch
and take care of it.
One day my husband and
mother went over to the far side of
the ranch to fix some fence. I was

ly afraid of snakes, so I

with them.

I was ironing in the kitchen when
something caused me to look out
the window. There is a spring about

Prt eo

„ e CTE a i

mong the trees, and when I first
aw him I thought my husband
Was back until I took a good look.
With horror I realized the man
didn’t have a head. All I could see
Was a body.
1 forgot all about my fear of
snakes and decided to go over
my husband and mother
ere!
‘hey asked me why I came, but
wouldn’t tell them for three days.
s afraid they would laugh at

Since my early teens I had been
uided by prophecies and warnings
hrough dreams, and had learned
ever to ignore them.
In about 1917 I was living in the
* west coast town of
: , Florida. An old time flag
0 Food at the center of the
own before its largest hotel. The
jair artery of traffic came through
fs main street, swung around the
pole and proceeded at right
les toward the Bay where it
intersected Bay Shore Drive—the
nly automobile “speeding grounds“
In a dream one night I was sur-
ised to find myself in the pas-
's seat of my car whereas I
s did my own driving.
ig toward the driver's seat
who my chauffeur might

* 4

IT HAPPENED TO ME. 53

Finally, when I did tell them
about the incident, my mother
said it wasn’t a laughing matter,
because a man had been killed
there about three years before and
they never had found his head. He
has been seen by others, walking
around the spring, she said, and
the saying is he comes back to try
and find his head.

Helen Bailey
104 West Alameda
Rosewell, New Mex.

THE SKELETON DRIVER

be I found him to be—death! A
skeleton in a long black robe and
deep black hood. There was no
personality indicated; no resem-
blame to any human being.

just white bones and black shroud.
I. awakened trembling in the
knowledge that it was a warning
that I must heed.

By late afternoon, however,
nothing unusual had occurred and
I completely forgot the incident. I
drove into town, around the flag
pole and toward Bay Shore Drive.
When within a few car-lengths of
the Drive the dream flashed be-
fore me as if projected upon a
screen. With no other reason for
doing so I slammed brakes and
skidded to a stop just as a car
driven by a drunken driver zig-zag-
ged meee sie intersection at top

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MYSTIC

speed. Without that warning I
could not have avoided being
hurled into the Bay.

/

Mera Gaskill,
429 Elder Drive
Claremont, Caljornia

SEEING DOUBLE

VEN now I am uncertain whe-
ther to believe in ghosts, but I

did come across a rather curious
piece of evidence the other day. My

father-in-law gave me a diary

which had belonged to an uncle of

his, one Henry Hancock.

It appears that Uncle Henry had
been a solicitor in the small
of Wiveliscombe until his death
some fifty years ago. He had also
had an office some nine miles
away in Bampton which he visited
twice a week, travelling in his one-

horse buggy alone. Back in those
days it was a lonely bit of country-
side between the two small towns.

The first entry in his diary re-

cords that while about half-way
home one moonlight winters night,
he became conscious of an over-
whelming feeling of foreboding. The
further he went the stronger it
grew, until he could stand it no
longer. Being a deeply religious
man he stopped the buggy and got
out. Kneeling beside the road, he
prayed earnestly for a few moments.
Presently, feeling the weight of
fear had been lifted from his

Shoulders, he continued his journey

and arrived home without mishap.

Some months later, in an entire-
lube Mui .

town

ly different entry, he records that
he was summoned to the bedside of
a dying farmer who wished to make
his will. While there the man ad-
mitted that he had a confession to
make, and asked Uncle Henry if he
could recall a certain lawsuit of
some years back, in which he, the

farmer, would have won had it not
been for a certain piece of evidence

produced by Uncle Henry. As a
result not only did he lose the
case but it also cost him several
hundred pounds.

So great was his anger that he
vowed a terrible revenge and had
lain in wait for the returning soli-
citor on the lonely Bampton road.
In his own words he continued:

“With murder in my heart I
Saw you coming sir, but just be-
fore you reached me you did a
strange thing. You stopped and
got out and knelt down, then after
a few minutes you came on. As
you drew level I saw there were
two of you and I was mercifully
prevented from committing a das-
tardly crime.”

Mrs. Barbara Hancock
Lemons Cottage
Atherington, Umberleigh,
N. Devon, England.

R I dreamed this story, or,
as mystics might say I'd
in through a psychic experience.
prevent any argument, let's say
reamed that I died in my sleep.
the ego, soul, or astral body,
it what you will, came out of
„carna covering and looked
m upon its physical counterpart
g in bed apparently not breath-
„This spirit- entity, identified
self, experienced a feeling of
freedom; mixed with the
ef one would sense when throw-
way an old, stained, thread-
Suit of clothes. My next
might was: “So I'm dead.
| what?” There was not the
lest feeling of sorrow at being
der in a dimension entirely
to me. But there was some
eliness; which, at the moment, I
ib ited to a desire to mix with
I thought of people I had
J found myself with them.
out any sensation of transi-
or going from here to there.
new way of thinking, their
ty problems were boresome to
Fo example: I thought of
in D. Roosevelt, who had
been inaugurated to his sec-
n office (this experience of
appened in 1937), and, as
ht of F. D. R., I was im-
ely projected into the White

IT HAPPENED TO ME... 55
A RINGSIDE SEAT WITH DEATH

House. There he and Jim Farley
were discussing the possibilities of
a third and fourth term in office,
and the second world war that was
to come.

To me they seemed like children
playing with armies of toy soldiers;

-not men who believed themselves

as shapers of destiny.

None of this was surprising to
me... because I knew that the
third and fourth term of office for
F. D. R. had already come about;
that death interrupted his fourth
term; and the second world war was
over with. It was like reading a
week-old newspaper. I got the im-
pression that the time element
with the living was like a clock
running slow. It seemed to me that
they thought only in the past.
Whereas, I was thinking in the
eternal NOW. And could see the
whole pattern, instead’ of only a
part of it» Perhaps clairvoyants
see only the NOW; but to others it
seems like the future.

As this thought is somewhat in-
volved, I would like to digress a
moment to give an example: One
evening we are admiring the beauty
of a star twinkling down upon us
from the firmament. To us that
is happening then and there. But
to a learned astronomer there is a
different picture. Because he
knows that particular star disin-

56 MYSTIC

tegrated millions of light-years ago,
and we are only just perceiving its
reflections.

Bored with the childishness of
the living, I felt lonesome for some
of my own kind ... the dead. In
a flash I was among them. It was
just as if I had suddenly been de-
posited in Grand Central station;
with “people” hurrying here and
there; with others standing in
small groups.

Moving over to a group of four,
two men and two women, I dis-
covered that three of them were
trying to convince the one woman
who couldn’t believe that she was
dead. There was no actual talking
as the living know it; instead, a
form of telepathy was the means
of communication. Mental-pictures
were rapidly transmitted from one
to the other. It was something like
turning one’s television set from
one station to the other, and im-
mediately getting a picture. It was
apparent to me that the barrier
of languages was overcome here.
Because the living had first to think
in images, and then form these
pictures into sounds that would be
understandable to another living
person.

The woman was very fright-
ened at the thought being con-
veyed to her. This was evidenced
by a blur of incoherent pictures;
showing her to be bordering on

hysteria.

To avoid confusion in the telling
of this anecdote, I will hereafter
write: he, she, or I “said” this or
that, just as though the living were
talking.
ile among the living I had
been an inveterate smoker, There-
fore, while tuning-in on this “con-
versation” of departed spirits, I
automatically fumbled for a cig-
arette. But, as soon as I felt the
desire for a smoke there was al-
ready a cigarette in my mouth and a
lighter in my hand. “This is going
to be good.” I thought. “I have
only to express a desire and imme-
diately it is manifested. Hey! I’d
better be careful of my thinking, or
I’m liable to manifest something
disagreeable; and not know how
to get rid of it.” Lighting the cig-
arette, I took the first deep inhala-
tion... but. . . there was no sen-
sation. In fact, there was nothing
but a picture of the smoke issuing

one’s imagination. I thought:
we carry over our desires . . . with-
out the ability to satisfy them
brother!” This was to be
tough. But I did feel glad that I
had not been an alcoholic or a

clo

i
i)

~
>

IT HAPPENED TO ME... 57
ater finding its own level”.

E these souls hurried past me

hey were constantly changing

lothes.

Presumably, as they

thought of what they would like to
, that too became manifest,

ed they were clothed accordingly.

And what a variety of costumes
. it was like a masquerade ball.
Looking around, I saw a large

K

man ion,

medi sval

built in all styles, from
to ultra-modern. Work-

nen were building additions to it.

And there was no sound of axe
r hammer. It was like watching
ent movie.
iosity moved me to enter
his monstrosity, and I saw that it
s furnished in every imaginable
; from conservative to the biz-
e, Inside there were many, many
Spirits sitting around on this poly-
lot furniture. They were “conver-
ing,” and the gist of their subjects
is their

arth. Thi

own frustrations while on
s made me think of some

f my own; with a feeling of re-

Bh
*
a

very

distinguished-looking old

dy, dressed in mid-Victorian
tyle, was sitting on a Turkish
leaning her chin on a gold-
aded cane. Her piercing black
e must

oughts,

been observing me. And
have picked up my
because she said: “Don’t

too much about the things

veren

't able to do while among

ng. All of those things you

Tet

„ e Ane

can do over here. If you want to
enough.“

“But how?” I asked d
ly. They were matters that were
only essential on earth. There would
be no purpose to them here.“

She answered, “Young man,
being new on this plane you have
much to learn. Look around. Do
you see such a great deal of differ-
ence between us and the living?”

Looking around, I saw a large
gold-framed mirror on the wall op-
posite me, but could see no reflec-
tion of myself in it. The little old
lady had referred to me as “young
man;” could it be that these entities
only saw each other in the form in
which the other soul was pictured
in their thoughts? Because, when
I left the body on earth it had
been middle-aged. I might be a
young soul, but I certainly wasn’t
a young man.

As I turned to look at her again
I found that she had changed into_
a young, and very beautiful woman.

“Don’t look so surprised,” she
said, smiling. “You thought of me
as being old, first because of the
style of dress, and second because
of the elderly manner in which I
was addressing you. There is no
age here. We are as young or old as
we think we are; or as another
soul thinks of us. When I passed
over, it was in the era that this
type of dress was worn; therefore
I feel more at home in it.”

58 MYSTIC

My new-found friend continued.
“The problems you brought over
here, you alone will have to work
out on this plane. We all have
free-will. Now we have a greater
freedom for its expression. With-
out the cramping, misleading in-
fluences of our earthly five
senses; and without the pressure
that was brought to bear on us
by other living people.”

As she talked I again had the de-
sire to smoke. And went through
the same materialization perfor-
mance with a cigarette; with no
sensation of enjoyment.

Noticing this. My lady friend
said. “Now you are experiencing
one of the things I prefer to. Un-
less you eliminate certain earthly
desires from your soul-mind, you
will continue to try to do them
over and over, endlessly; with no
sense of satisfaction. Look over
there at that man pouring liquor
into himself. On earth he could
have obtained a little escape, so-
called, in that manner. And see
that fat woman gulping greedily at
the food on the table in front of
her. She cannot taste anything;
any more than the liquor-drinker
can; or you with a cigarette.”

I thought to myself: “This can-
not be the paradise that the living
describe so beautifully. It must be
some form of purgatory.”

My friend again picked up my
thoughts. I had yet to learn how to

control them so that others wouldn’t
get what I didn’t want them to.
“Yes,” she said. “This is a form
of purgatory. On this plane there
are what the living call earth-
bound spirits. They stay here for
as long as they choose; or until
they learn how to raise their vibra-
tions to a higher level. As there is
no time nor space in the Cosmic,
many remain in this state until
they are forced to reincarnate back
into a living body for another op-
portunity to try and learn their
lessons in the earthly school.”
Thinking of her high-type of
mentality,” I asked, “Are you also
one of these earth-bound spirits?”
“No,” she answered. “I com-
menced here but was able to at-
tain a higher state of conscious-
ness. Now, part of my work is to
help newly-arrived spirit-entities to
adjust themselves to this environ-
ment. While in the flesh I lived in
a mansion (part of this building
was materialized by my thinking
when I first arrived here), and I
was filled with the beliefs of fam-
ily-heritage. Egotisms and self-cen-
tering ideologies controlled me so
much that now I am trying to work
out my problems, or Karma, by

helping these bewildered souls to

help themselves.”

With a little sigh, she continued.
“I feel that soon I am about to
reincarnate again. The thought
makes me rather sad; knowing

at I will be leaving all these
ildren. In spite of the weaknesses
o carry over with them,
through the law of cause and effect,
find that I have gained compas-
onate understanding, and love
or them. And my work here has

ide me see the over-all pattern of
why and how of things on
arth. I pray that I will be able to
ing some trace of this thinking
ito my next carnate form. Not that
expect to remember what hap-
med here consciously, but in
me flash-back, or dream, or, so-
Alled, psychic experience, I may

brought to the realization of the
tility of my form of self-expres-
On in my last incarnation.”
As this very beautiful lady ex-
essed her innermost thoughts to
ie, I was wondering what form of
pression there was between the
zes over here. And whether there
Duld be any sensation in a kiss;
Would it be just as tasteless as
f cigarette? Either she was too
I in her own thoughts to
R up that one of mine; or else
ignored it as being presump-
on the part of a newly-ar-
fed, earth-bound, spirit.
A little ashamed of my earthly
of thinking, I said. “Tell me.
do I go about lifting myself
higher state of consciousness?”
S I said this I felt a rumbling
ition throughout me, that de-
into a deep, sonorous,

IT HAPPENED TO ME... 59

voice. As words formed out of
these vibrations, the voice said:
“You are going back. . It
couldn't have come from my beau-
tiful lady friend. Because she had
disappeared. In fact, everything
around me had faded into nothing-
ness; and I felt myself shrinking
as though I were being compressed
into a funnel. Trying to fight off
this overpowering force, I shouted:
“I won't go back!” But the power
forced me down; until I found my-
self back at my cast-off body, and
entering it against my will. In the
body I sat up in bed, There was
cold perspiration on my forehead,
and my extremities were cold and
clammy. My first gesture was to
reach to a table by the bedside,
where I kept my cigarettes and
lighter.

IU lit a cigarette. And this time
I got the familiar sensation out
of the first drag on it. I started
making notes about the many
truths I had learned in my dream;
so as not to let them slip away
from my conscious mind into the
dusty pigeon-holes of my subconsci-
ous. While doing so I was thinking
deeply about the beautiful lady I
had manifested. And how wonder-
ful it would be to meet her again
in this world. Then I realized that,
even if she reincarnated now, she
would be starting life again as a
new-born babe. And though she
had thought of me as a young man

60
I was still middle-aged. Time
doesn’t stand still on this earth-

plane. And I thought of Dr. Faus-
tus, when Mephistopheles showed
him a vision of the beautiful Mar-
guerite, and promised him his lost
youth if he would but mortgage

MYSTIC

his soul. Looking at the on my

cigarette, smoldering between my

fingers, I said: “I’d better give up
smoking. . . one of these days.”

John G. Parry

529 S. W. 7th Couri

Miami, Fla.

BETTER FORGOTTEN

MARS ago I decided to become
a nurse and go in training at
the General Hospital, in San Fran-
cisco. At first I was a little home-
sick, then as the months went by I
Was given more reponsibilities and
made friends. I loved it. One night,
after a snack with the girls, I went
back to the ward and reported to
our charge nurse. I talked with her
a few minutes, then started down
the corridor to answer a light.
After I finished, I decided to look
in on two patients who were very
ill and were not expected to last
through the night. Flashing my
light down toward the floor I
opened the door quietly. The room
Was in darkness. I stood petrified,
for just then I heard a sigh, then
there was silence. I saw an irrides-
cent light, bluish in color, smallish
in size. It seemed to float like smoke
from the top of the man’s head,
drifting toward the open window.
Seconds later I witnessed from the
other bed the same procedure.
I ran back to the charge nurse,
AHA

me, trying to understand what
was wrong. Then she took my arm
and forced me back to the room
with her. They were both dead. I
had witnessed the death of two men,
one white, the other colored. Believe
me, in death there is no difference.
Both minds or souls were the
same.

Several older nurses tried to kid
me out of what I told them. Final-
ly I gave up trying to convince any-
one.

Later in life, I met one of the
nurses again. She told me that she
had believed me— but didn’t want
to be ridiculed again. She had seen
a woman, in one of the smaller
wards, and spoken to her. When she
asked why the woman had been
moved later that night, they told
her that no one had been in that
bed for three days, Her story had
received the same ridicule as mine.
That was why she had remained
silent. There are things that hap-
pen that we keep to ourselves,” she
she informed me, No doubt she is

Chews

As a nurse I was trained not to
ow emotion or panic, even when

thing was hard to comprehend.
Friday evening I had a call
br an interview regarding an elderly
in returning from the hospital the
st day. His daughters told me he
d insisted on coming home, For
ther’s sake, they hoped I could
in time to return him to

Never will I forget the light in

‘tired old eyes, as he _ gazed
his beloved room.

fy heaven! he murmured.

cient, what’s your name?”
Vhile I made him comfortable
talked of his illness. Mr. David
is both intelligent and gracious.
told me of days long since gone.
er have I had such a daughterly
ption for any man except my
fer. At times I would find him

ing at his family, “I'll tell
Ow you all neglect me.” When
alked in he would start his list
omplaints, calling me The
te Avenger.” I knew he was
ely letting off steam.

ra few months my patient
another slight stroke. Still the
br nor I revealed his secret, but
ime was very short. Somehow I
the doctor was on Mr. Da-
) side also. I changed to night
from eleven to seven, at nce.
nsideration of Mr. David I
d very small light. It was

IT HAPPENED TO ME... 61

too dim to read so I knit, and auto-
matically sipped my coffee. Look-
ing up I saw a young man. “Yes?”
I enquired. He had fairly run into
the room, calling, “Dad.” His eyes
met mine. “I'll return,” he said.
He had been surprised and embar-
rassed at seeing me. Confused he
fled. I was indignant. At two o’clock
in the morning for anyone to romp
into a patient’s room — of all the
nerve.

At breakfast I asked the girls
about their brother. “Yes they ans-
wered, “We have a brother, dead.”
Shocked, I said no more, dreading
what they might think of me should
I have said that we had had a vis-
itor. Next day they insisted, as Mr.
David was in a coma, that he be
transferred to the hospital. I
accompanied him in the ambulance,
On the way he came to, asking me
where we were going. Then he
turned his head toward the window,
softly saying, Forgive them, for
they know not what they do.” I
was no longer on the payroll, but
stayed as long as possible with him,
knowing that his son would call for
him very soon; But I had to leave.
He passed on at two o'clock that
morning. I was grieved that I could
not be with him at the time of his
death.

Betty Hall,

25344 Penn. Ave.,

- Lomita, Calif.
THE END

Does the atom bomb effect

THE

OR many years before atomic

fission became a fact, scien-

tists were studying sunspot
activity in relation to heavy rain-
fall. Sir James Jeans, the British
phycisist, proved a definite connec-
tion, through charts made of tree
ring growth and sunspot- charts.
Andrew E. Douglas, Professor of
Astronomy and Director of the
Steward Observatory for the Uni-
versity of Arizona, went much fur-
ther. His work started in 1901, and
he has records dating back to A. D.
11. His findings prove conclusively
the definite relation of heavy rain-
fall and heavy sunspotting.

How “storms” on the sun can
affect earth weather has never
been determined, but in some way
they do.

Since the invention of radio,
other interesting discoveries shave
been made. During periods of high
sunspot activity, magnetic storms
in the atmosphere of the earth are
greatly intensified. This interferes
with radio and telgeraphic com-
munication.

For this reason, amateur astron-
omers in different parts of the

62

DAGGER BEHIND

country are employed to keep
charts on sunspots. In this way
radio and telephone communica-
tion lines can be kept open. Wea-
ther men also use this information
to route planes and shipping.
Sunspot activity has been intensi-
fied immensely since the first
atomic explosions in 1945. The lar-
gest sunspot area ever recorded was
on February 5, 1946. As 1942-43
was the expected maximum, only
the size of the spotted area was un-
usual; but activity should have di-
minished after that, until the min-
imum was reached in 1953-’54.
Instead, in May, 1947, the area
of spottedness of the solar surface
was the greatest recorded over
nearly a hundred year period.
Then in 1948 another peak occur-
red which was nearly as great. And
in May, 1951, Dr. William Marko-
witz, of the Naval Observatory, re-
ported a giant sunspot group, the
largest in four years, followed by
the usual serious disturbances in
tadio and telegraphic communica-

tions. This, when sunspot mini-
» should have been approach-

} 1 would seem that not only do
ipsets on the sun affect our
, but our earth can, in turn,
se disturbances on the sun.
hese were all periods of atom
omb testing activity.

Solar phenomena and the effect
the earth has been studied ex-
sively since the war, not only
n the United States, but all over
the world. Russia is known to have
en notably active. The fields of
Har physics, the earth’s atmos-
pre, meteoric astronomy, and es-
cially magnetic phenomena are
special interest to astronomers
it this time.

This, of itself, would not be so
gnificant if our sun were not
to be a yellow dwarf. A
low dwarf is the most interesting,
d also the most dangerous, type
Star. It is known as a variable
i, which means that it pulsates,
‘expands and contracts. But

weather, our health, earth's equilibrium?

HE ATOMIC CLOAK
By Marion Kirkpatrick

every once in a while yellow
dwarfs expand and keep on ex-
panding. They are then called ex-
ploding stars.

Because astronomers know this,
but do not know what causes a star
to explode, professional astronomers
have enlisted the aid of many
amateur astronomers. These ama-
teurs are assigned certain variable
stars to watch. They check the
brightness at stated times each
night. Some of these stars vary in
brightness over a period of hours,
some over a period of months. By
keeping a constant check, astrono-
mers hope to be able to learn what
causes a yellow dwarf to explode.
For this reason they also keep re-
cords of sunspot activity.

Many astronombers believe that
excessive sunspotting may cause
our sun to burst all bounds and
become an exploding star. If it
should explode, Venus, Mercury,

64 MYSTIC

Earth and Mars would be engulfed
in a matter of minutes.

During heavy sunspot activity,
cosmic radiation on earth rises far
above normal. Our earth is send-
ing some radiation into space during
test bombing. Is it unreasonable to
believe that this radiation—unin-
tended by Nature—could seriously
upset the sun? The radiation is
small, compared to solar radiation,
but it is possible that even a
small amount can upset natural bal-
ance, when coming from a source
never intended by Nature.

It is generally known that the

true north pole and the magnetic
pole do not coincide. It is also
known that the magnetic pole
varies séveral degrees as the earth
wobbles on its axis. At the Ameri-
can Meteorological. Society meet-
ing in Washington, Drs. Walter
Munk and Gordon Groves stated
the belief that monsoons pushing
against the high Himalayas. and
air masses moving over the
Asiatic continent keep the North
Pole moving in a flat circle of 20
feet in diameter.

This would indicate that the
earth is very delicately balanced.
If winds and air masses could

cause the pole to move, a series of
and H-bomb tests could surely
nudge the earth on her axis—and
in a direction opposite to Nature’s
intended direction,

Tt is believed that, should the

gët

magnetic pole approach too near
the true north pole, the poles would
“jump” together, causing tidal
waves, earthquakes of unbelieve-
able magnitude, and possible vol-
canic eruptions throughout the
earth.

Are they getting dangerously
close? d
The orbit of the Moon around
the earth depends on magnetic at-
traction. Proof that our magnetic
system is out of order comes from
the Royal Astronomer of England.
He states that the “moon is out of
gear,” and is, in consequence,
re-charting the tides for the first

time in history.

He does not say that atomic
blasts are responsible for this con-
dition, only that the condition ex-
ists. But many people would like
to know why this has happened.

The denials by military author-
ities, government officials, and
scientists that A-bombs have caused
drastic weather changes, have be-
come notorious. Do the facts bear
out the denials?

In the September 8, 1951 issue
of Science News Letter, Jerome
Namias, Chief of the extended
forecast section of the United
States weather bureau, said that
the unusual weather conditions of
the winter of 1949-’50 could per-
sist for months, and “result in ice
age epochs.” He cautiously started

that the explanation is clearly anti-

b ent was in the Pacific area,
first ever recorded. The follow-
ig year the pattern was repeated,
hich was very unexpected. This
movement of air masses was mid-
ay between Alaska and Hawaii.
)A-bomb explosions cause a pil-
rf of smoke and fire to race toward
Me sky at a speed of nearly
ght miles per second.
gine, if you can, the terrific
bances this causes in our at-
here, Air currents are drawn
d the explosion site, regard»
of their normal direction.
d air from the polar region, hot
from the tropics, all crowd to-
d the test site.
one with good eyesight and
intelligence can look at a
‘of the Pacific area and ac-
for the clockwise whirls in
mosphere. Still, a report from
sources stated that tests
bring rain!
ring the tests early in 1952,
‘little town of Mina, Nevada
d three inches of rain in less
| three days. This is the
average for the town. More-
i — New Mexico and
i Texas received the
dr g rain in over a year
ig the same period. It was

THE DAGGER BEHIND THE ATOMIC CLOAK 65

and 1952 tests.

Many parts of the United States
and the Hawaiian Islands are un-
dergoing serious drouth conditions.
This could be accounted for
through the change in pressure
areas. The highest air pressure belt,
located for centuries over the Ber-
ing Sea, is said to have. disappear-
ed, and to be re-forming over
Northwest Africa. If this is true,
what earthly disturbance could
have caused it?

What more logical explanation
than atomic tests?

Another question many people
would like to have answered by
our scientists pertains to the ozone.
This is a protective layer of oxy-
gen gas which is slightly different
from ordinary oxygen, in that it is
composed of three atoms to the
molecule, instead of the usual two.

The ozone layer is probably
the most important single layer in
our atmosphere. Although it is only
one-tenth inch thick, it filters out
most of the ultraviolet and red and
infrared rays of the sun. It also
filters some of. the yellow-green
radiation. So well balanced is it in
thickness, it allows just enough
ultraviolet light to penetrate to the
surface of the earth for health, but
keeps out enough to keep us from
burning, as long as we are sensi-
bly cautious about sunburn.

Is this layer of ozone self-renew-
ing?

$ OS

Atomic blasts, causing pressures
that travel skyward at speeds of
eight miles per second, must draw
huge amounts of atmospheric gas-
ses into outer space. If the layer
of ozone is not self-renewing, how
many more blasts will it take to
change it enough so that our earth
will no longer sustain life?

Smithsonian scientists are using a
50-year record of variations in the
yellow-green band to trace changes
in the ozone layer. Radionic in-
struments show that longwave, elec-
tromagnetic energy is entering our
atmosphere, Ultraviolet radiation
is known to decrease during sun-
spot minimum, but there has been
no sunspot minimum. Could harm-
ful rays be penetrating the ozone
layer, rays unknown on earth un-
til now?

Many times in the past our earth
has experienced heavy meteor
showers, often called shooting stars.
These usually follow the appear-
ance of a comet. Following these
showers, many new disease germs
seem to become active causing
ailments difficult to diagnose,
and even more difficult to treat.
A belief, surviving from ancient
times, is that pestilence follows
the appearance of a comet. Could
this be caused by harmful rays
allowed to enter our atmosphere
by the “holes” made in the ether
by the meteors?

Hans ; Turing, Austrian physis

*

cist, says: Cosmic rays have very
much the same effect on the hu-
man body as atomic radiation.“

Whether atomic blasts have
opened the way for new disease
germs to enter our atmosphere
from outer space, or whether new
diseases are being caused by radio-
active dust, remains problemati-
cal, but it isa fact that science
cannot account for “Virus X,” the
“three-day flu” or the disease
which attacked the leg veins of the
22 nurses in a New York hospital.

The increasing frequency of the
dread lukemia, which so closely re-
sembles radiation sickness, is caus-
ing the greatest alarm throughout
the country. Many people would
like to know whether lukemia is ac-
tually increasing, or whether
many people are dying of radia-
tion sickness.

Radiation from debris of the
fission process can be picked up all
over the world. It is reported that
the first radioactive cloud is still
being tracked as it wanders over
the earth.

Studies by the Atomic Bomb
Casualty Commission found there
is a definite trend toward more luk-
emia in children of residents of Na-
gasaki and Hiroshima.

If our atmosphere in the United
States is not polluted from debris
from the fission process, why has
lukemia increased so alarmingly
here also?

Mankind is playing with forces
far beyond his understanding. Our
‘scientists have admitted they are,
‘at times, uncertain of the outcome
of many experiments. How far
have they gone toward evaluating
final outcome of unrestrained
e of the A-bomb?

Could it be possible the Rus-
sia n scientists have been investiga-
‘tin g many of these problems, and
fo! that reason want to outlaw the
A-bomb? Are these some of the
ngs Andrei Y. Vishinsky was al-
ng to when he said the Ameri-
can press will understand some time
What a disaster for mankind lies in
i race for atomic and hydrogen
bomb superiority? Note that he did
not say in atomic warfare.

The answers to the questions pre-
ented here could not give “aid and
tomfort” to the Russians. There is
strong possibility that the answers
would not aid and comfort the
mericans, either, but they would
ot feel quite so frustrated and

THE DAGGER BEHIND THE ATOMIC CLOAK

67

helpless.

What right have military auth-
orities, in a democracy, to “clas-
sify,” or, more plainly, Aide from
the people those things which
might frighten them? Is the Am-
erican public so mentally unstable
that every frightening fact should
be “classified” or hidden; that
military authorities should appoint
themselves nursemaids to the
people, in order to protect them
from the facts of life? i

The knowledge of Russia’s de-
velopment of the atomic bomb was
“classified” for many months.
Surely Russia knew about their
bomb! Who is the enemy? Do our
military authorities merely like the
role of nursemaid? They “classified”
flying saucers, and in so doing
they pronounced thousands of our
citizens insane. Who is insane? The
people who saw them, or the people
who said there was no such thing,
because they have never seen one?

THE END

Bishop Sheen's Ghostly Straight Man

During Bishop Fulton J; Sheen's March 14 broadcast, he asked: “Would
rere
rd to say: “Of course not!” The explanation for this strange occurrence
38 said to be d technician, in transferring the program from the studio con-
l to the master control, inadvertently threw the switch to ABC for an instant
of Dumont, affecting the sound, but NOT THE PICTURE. Is this possible?
@ recording of the ABC program for the same time actually have
rds in it? You TV technicians, let's have
h the sound of a program and ‘leave the picture behind?.

opne: (poln Pa le,

$ OS

Atomic blasts, causing pressures
that travel skyward at speeds of
eight miles per second, must draw
huge amounts of atmospheric gas-
ses into outer space. If the layer
of ozone is not self-renewing, how
many more blasts will it take to
change it enough so that our earth
will no longer sustain life?

Smithsonian scientists are using a
50-year record of variations in the
yellow-green band to trace changes
in the ozone layer. Radionic in-
struments show that longwave, elec-
tromagnetic energy is entering our
atmosphere, Ultraviolet radiation
is known to decrease during sun-
spot minimum, but there has been
no sunspot minimum. Could harm-
ful rays be penetrating the ozone
layer, rays unknown on earth un-
til now?

Many times in the past our earth
has experienced heavy meteor
showers, often called shooting stars.
These usually follow the appear-
ance of a comet. Following these
showers, many new disease germs
seem to become active causing
ailments difficult to diagnose,
and even more difficult to treat.
A belief, surviving from ancient
times, is that pestilence follows
the appearance of a comet. Could
this be caused by harmful rays
allowed to enter our atmosphere
by the “holes” made in the ether
by the meteors?

Hans ; Turing, Austrian physis

*

cist, says: Cosmic rays have very
much the same effect on the hu-
man body as atomic radiation.“

Whether atomic blasts have
opened the way for new disease
germs to enter our atmosphere
from outer space, or whether new
diseases are being caused by radio-
active dust, remains problemati-
cal, but it isa fact that science
cannot account for “Virus X,” the
“three-day flu” or the disease
which attacked the leg veins of the
22 nurses in a New York hospital.

The increasing frequency of the
dread lukemia, which so closely re-
sembles radiation sickness, is caus-
ing the greatest alarm throughout
the country. Many people would
like to know whether lukemia is ac-
tually increasing, or whether
many people are dying of radia-
tion sickness.

Radiation from debris of the
fission process can be picked up all
over the world. It is reported that
the first radioactive cloud is still
being tracked as it wanders over
the earth.

Studies by the Atomic Bomb
Casualty Commission found there
is a definite trend toward more luk-
emia in children of residents of Na-
gasaki and Hiroshima.

If our atmosphere in the United
States is not polluted from debris
from the fission process, why has
lukemia increased so alarmingly
here also?

Mankind is playing with forces
far beyond his understanding. Our
‘scientists have admitted they are,
‘at times, uncertain of the outcome
of many experiments. How far
have they gone toward evaluating
final outcome of unrestrained
e of the A-bomb?

Could it be possible the Rus-
sia n scientists have been investiga-
‘tin g many of these problems, and
fo! that reason want to outlaw the
A-bomb? Are these some of the
ngs Andrei Y. Vishinsky was al-
ng to when he said the Ameri-
can press will understand some time
What a disaster for mankind lies in
i race for atomic and hydrogen
bomb superiority? Note that he did
not say in atomic warfare.

The answers to the questions pre-
ented here could not give “aid and
tomfort” to the Russians. There is
strong possibility that the answers
would not aid and comfort the
mericans, either, but they would
ot feel quite so frustrated and

THE DAGGER BEHIND THE ATOMIC CLOAK

67

helpless.

What right have military auth-
orities, in a democracy, to “clas-
sify,” or, more plainly, Aide from
the people those things which
might frighten them? Is the Am-
erican public so mentally unstable
that every frightening fact should
be “classified” or hidden; that
military authorities should appoint
themselves nursemaids to the
people, in order to protect them
from the facts of life? i

The knowledge of Russia’s de-
velopment of the atomic bomb was
“classified” for many months.
Surely Russia knew about their
bomb! Who is the enemy? Do our
military authorities merely like the
role of nursemaid? They “classified”
flying saucers, and in so doing
they pronounced thousands of our
citizens insane. Who is insane? The
people who saw them, or the people
who said there was no such thing,
because they have never seen one?

THE END

Bishop Sheen's Ghostly Straight Man

During Bishop Fulton J; Sheen's March 14 broadcast, he asked: “Would
rere
rd to say: “Of course not!” The explanation for this strange occurrence
38 said to be d technician, in transferring the program from the studio con-
l to the master control, inadvertently threw the switch to ABC for an instant
of Dumont, affecting the sound, but NOT THE PICTURE. Is this possible?
@ recording of the ABC program for the same time actually have
rds in it? You TV technicians, let's have
h the sound of a program and ‘leave the picture behind?.

opne: (poln Pa le,

A
PLOT
AGAINST
OUR |
LIVES

by an age-old enemy of the human race, which
has for thousands of years destroyed civili-
zations, and has during our civilization,
murdered the best minds, and invoked all the
hatreds that have kept us from uniting, until
today its grim threat is death itself in the
form of atomic war, and atomic death in its
worst form.

By
Richard S. Shaver

of mob violence which so ruthlessly
and inescapably destroyed every
leader, every thinker in all France.
It was malevolent plan, carefully
and completely worked out to the
last drop of blood, that destroyed
everything fine in France—and
blamed it all on Democracy, on
“the people”.

The blood bath of the French
revolution“ was but the culminat-
ing crime of a long series of terri-
ble campaigns against the minds
of man. History records one of
these campaigns as “the witchcraft

»

In Spain this witchcraft perse-
cution built up to the Inquisition,
peaked by the auto da fe. All over
Europe this terrible business of kill-
ing thinkers went on and on
through long centuries of elimina-
tion of the best of mankind.

Scholars today seem to see little
connection between the horrors of
the Inquisition and the terrors of
the French revolution. Yet to those
who know, there is no essential dif-
ference, in fact not even a pause,
between the succeeding operations
upon the growing mind of the race
of mankind.

Tuch, the ancient dwellers of the
caverns, fear the mind of mankind
‘as they fear no other thing. The
“Tong. Bin: roll of the Inquisition,
‘the witch burnings al over Europe,
‘the persecution’ of the “heretics”,
all the dark, bloody doings of me-

dieval darkness, were in actuality
but the mopping-up from an older,
longer war—a war of century after
century of careful pruning back of

the growing race. That endless
struggle was, and is, for the great-
est possession, the most tremendous
value that exists on earth, That
treasure is the science of those
great peoples who built the caverns.
The so-called “witches” and “sor-
cerers” they burned so enthuiastic-
ally were the last surface possessors
of fragments of that Elder science.
Today we laugh, ignorantly, con-
descendingly, at their “magical”
books, at their mumbo-jumbo reci-
pes for niagic. Those things of magic
which have come down to us from
medieval times seem the work of
ignorant, credulous fools. For they
are just that! The true “Black
Books” the actual scrolls of genu-
ine scientific data, were very care-
fully eliminated, for that was the
purpose behind the whole campaign.
The silly relics left us today are
purposely left to mislead moderns
into having the attitude they do
have toward the “dark ages“.

The underworld succeeded ad-
mirably in that long struggle’ for
complete possession of the ancient
science. They did overlook one fact,
that you’ must have scientists to
own science, and their fear and ig-
norance ‘today is the same as their
fear and ignorance then. Even
among themselves, they cannot let

4

‘any one man know too much, for
the same reasons they destroy our
‘surface men of science.

So they succeeded, and confined
all knowledge of the underworld to
the underworld, bottled up ap-
parently forever. But, on the sur-
face, the minds of men like Lavoi-
Sier were laying the base of modern
Science as we know it today. They
feared modern science, but some-
how it grew, even though they ab-
orted its birth. I, perhaps alone
among men, fear they succeeded
even here. For modern science rests
upon several false premises; its base
has serious faults which may cause
its complete downfall.

Our modern technological cul-
ture rests upon the tenuous base
of the atom bomb, waiting for that
‘moment when the master pulls
the puppet’s strings and the ter-
rible holocaust begins that will
end our civilization. It is not a
solid base for our people to con-
sider, that atom bomb.

The atom bomb is a product of
our surface science. If we pos~
sessed the elder science, we would
never produce fission bombs. They
knew better, from ancient experi-
ence with radioactivity and kin-
dred ills of all atomic fire. In
their science, all that is not inte-
grant, and all that is disintegrant
is an enemy of life. We know
that much, up here today, yet we
handle and work with disinte-

A PLOT AGAINST OUR LIVES 71

grance both as a weapon and as a
tool. We are beginning to recog-
nize it for the deadly adversary of
life that it is, but will our knowl-
edge of its nature come rapidly
enough to stop its injuries? It
doesn’t look that way. It looks as
if the atom bomb, the H-bomb
and atomic energy are going to fin-
ish us before we finish with them.

Yes, our modern industrial ciy-
ilization rests upon a base com-
pletely undermined by our dead-
liest enemies. Apparently we are
already done, just waiting for the
axe to fall. The air fleets are be-
ing readied; potential nation-de-
stroyers await their cargoes of uni-
versal death. All this is, as al-
ways controllable by unseen rays
upon the minds of the men who
command. We think those com-
manders and ‘leaders are our own,
chosen and trained by our own—
and they are. But their minds
can be taken over at any time by
a people who have no love for us,
nor for themselves or any other
living thing; a people raised in a
tradition unbelieveable unless ex-
perienced.

Over our heads this ancient en-
emy now holds the greatest club it
has ever held! The whole future
of mankind upon earth, any future
at all, depends, today, upon
whether hey fear the after-effects
of the bombs more than they fear
the future development of man.

72

(Hence, any solon who belittles
the total peril of atom bombard-
ment is an ignorant fool who-has
no real knowledge of the issues in-
volved.)

Our world-wars, the first in
1914, and the last the Korean
farce (if anything so tragic and
expensive can be called a farce),
all occurred in’ my lifetime. To
the average citizen these wars

_ have seemed inevitable struggles

between great nations for living
room, for power, for all the things
that make nations great and ri
Yet over and over our present day
historians point out that no nation
has visibly profited from any of
these wars. They are right; no
nation profited, all lost.

But they are wrong in thinking
that any one nation or any group
of nations caused or ordered these
wars. The Hohenzollerns lost
everything in their great gamble
for world domination—we say.
Doesn’t it seem strange that any
great family having so much would
gamble it all in a mad thirst for.

more and more?

These wars are but parts of the
ancient time-worn process of keep-
ing surface man whittled down to
size. Before the first world war
Germany possessed the great uni--
versities, the laboratories, the fam-
ous physicists and men of rë-
search. Today, after two genera-

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our turn. For today we, the U.S.A.
possess the greatest and best cra-
dles of scientific learning, where
the scientists who will build the
future are being trained. As the
pattern goes, the U.S. A. will
emerge inevitably from the next
war defeated, broken, and shorn
of all true scientific power, shorn
probably forever of all true men-
tal growth.

If we emerge from another
world war, it will be as a-stag-
gering nonentity, a remnant of
flesh without a mind, a France for-
ever after futile.

After the next world war, when
recovery sets in, the technicians
of the world will come from some
other nation. Perhaps from the
new Canada, grown great by stay-
ing neutral. Perhaps from such
now little nations as Switzerland
and Sweden, grown great because
others have grown small. That
is, if radioactivity from the atom
bomb lets any nation liye on in
health.

All young thinkers refuse such
pessimism, such despair toward the
future, and rightly so. Optimism
is natural and right for the young.
I only hope they can see deeply
enough to accept the information
I can give them, while refusing to
accept the despair. It is not easy
for the modern public school pro-
duct to an of this
contrary to all

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A PLOT AGAINST OUR LIVES

have been taught. First-they
to think their way out of a
l strait-jacket. of untruth.
4 Beets step back to the days be-
e the French Revolution. This
was the hey-day of the Marquis de
e. Today we use the word
sadist without realizing the man
s not a myth. The Marquis was
al, a man as well known to
mce as Tommy Manville is to
He was a fashionable aristo-
leader of a coterie of power-
and rich young libertines. Let's
ppose for the sake of illustra-
that the Marquis de Sade was
who had access. to the caves,
lone who had signed on with the
avowed enemies of mankind. (To-
day such recruits are usually
0 Though they pay millions
for the privilege, they get little for
it. But, according to what little
itings exist on the subject, this
not always so in the past, and
recruits sometimes achieved
wer.) Now, let's further sup-
that the Marquis de Sade and
"his followers lived at the exact
‘time of the Revolution (they were
in fact earlier) and that they es-
aped its fury, went down into
he caves...
What would wah a group have
to the people who. destroyed
their monarchist playground, re-
placed it with a young “people’s
State’? Wouldn’t they have en-
red a counter-revolution to

Des

73

avenge the artistocrats?

Isn't that about what happened
to the revolutionists?

Looked at through the eyes of
the Marquis, history gives a dif-
ferent picture than we ever see in
a school text. Sadly one must
conclude that the sadists have had
far too many successes for comfort
to the right-makes-might theorists.

Suppose, too, that the cavern
rulers could give a servant like de
Sade a life-span two or three times
the normal three score and ten.
How much deviltry would he ac-
complished in 200 years of cruel
debauchery? Enough to wreck
the French race, do you think?

Napoleon and his wars wrecked
the French race, probably without
too much prodding from beneath.
We do know she has never re-
gained her former position.

No, it didn't happen exactly
that way. I was trying to draw a
picture of their work in a form
you could grasp easily.

The reality of their work is a
subtler and less evident meddling.
But we today have our groups of
favored “aristos” who do their
bidding on the surface. just as they
did in the days of de Sade. That
their work is less dark, or their
pleasures less grisly than those of
the Marquis, I have no reason to

(Naturally, these past remarks
are directed only to those who

74 MYSTIC
these is a habit of plucking at the

know something about de Sade’s
history, his record of cruel and
unusual amusements, his group’s
habit of indulging in dalliance
while victims were tortured under
their eyes.)

I wonder if “the flimsy base
upon which our civilization rests”
will be a fully understood phrase?
The elder culture (to compare for
illustration), was based upon an
understanding of the causes of hu-
man conduct denied to us (literal-
ly denied). We have no true un-
derstanding of human nature or
why we are driven to destroy each
other and our work. Hence, not
knowing “why”, we cannot stop
the approach of war.

The elder monitors knew the in-
fluence of sun and star cosmic ra-
diations upon human thought, and
they were trained to recognize this
influence when its symptoms ap-
peared in the affected individual.
There are a number of symptoms
to look for, especially in children,
whose little minds are forming.
Their pedagogy was based upon a
system of picking out these affected
individuals while still young and
subjecting them to special treat-
ment and restraint. In the worst
cases, of course (such as the young
Hitler must have been), they
were destroyed.

I know a few of these ies
toms, though only a few, from
sources you can guess. One of

bedclothes, in the very young
child. It is the same movement
the doctor today recognizes as ap-
proaching death in a very sick
person. All children go through
a stage of life when they have not
learned to resist these mental in-
fluences, we call this the “mischie-
vous stage”. This is a very im-
portant stage of life, when the
character is really formed. If the
young mind does not learn uncon-
sciously to resist these powerful
influences when young, he becomes
what we call 'the stinker’. If the
“stinker” does not learn to fear
the results of his errant conduct,
he becomes the true criminal.

The work of such men as Freud,
Kraft-Ebbing, etc., would be vast-
ly more valuable to pedagogy if it
recognized this true basic cause of
errant behavior. As it is, psychia-
try is a false science, because its
premises contain large errors. This
is demonstrably true, however it
may horrify the student who has
swallowed the pedants’ errors
whole hog (by pedants, I mean the
teachers who have made Freud and
the others a kind of - infallible
fetish to explain all human be-
havior).

It is very difficult to go on dis-
cussing this thing as if it were in
the past, or were some abstract
theory. .. as it actually

in my experience, so that I know

nd want to scream a warning of
resent peril to the world. It is
ficult to struggle with the gen-
fal lack of knowledge on this
ubject.
For instance, if every scientist
ing on research knew that
rtain lines of research meant
death for himself
For instance, if border patrol-
police, immigration inspec-
rs, customs inspectors, etc., etc.,
not to learn certain things,
wouldn’t die like my broth-

For instance, if the human race
a whole knew they had an en-
my who meant to make simple
ient cattle of them, and were
aching success in this an-

E F that a hint worked in subtly
is more apt to reach a hearer
n any broad statement of fact

This silent scream of warning to
5 | helpless, dear, unknowing fu-
re human race goes on and on,
ut how to make the present-day

an hear is beyond me, Too,
a beyond me what they are sup-
sed to do about it if they do
lar. They could be far worse off
lowing than not knowing.
Nevertheless one can't help
ng though it is like shouting
a deaf man on a tight rope.
Want to tell him the rope is

A PLOT AGAINST OUR LIVES

75

fraying, but he goes on with his
antics.

There is an old Chinese adage
that goes something like this: “The
fool is killed by accident, the smart
man dies by his own hand.” The
adage dates from the days of de-
cadence of the Empire, when the
value of life sank to its lowest
ebb. It is the true pessimist’s ne-
gation of the value of life.

Let us hope it is not really ap-
plicable today. But with the atom
bomb hanging over our heads,
and the ancient menace under our
feet, the outlook is not exactly an
optimist’s picnic ground.

You who read will probably dis-
count “the ancient menace”, but
you can hardly discount the
atomic weapons as an illusion. The
average man can do as little about
one as the other, it seems.

The man of research, the men
such as those who helped to create
the atomic menace, can doa lot
about both. If they knew.

For instance, there are about a
dozen relatively nearby stars
whose radiant emanations are
deadly to thought, damp out the
sensitive electrical mechanism the
human brain really is. Our own
sun, of course, is the worst of-
fender, but there are several stars
which help. The survival of this
ancient knowledge is evidenced by
the existence of astrology, insist-
ing as it does that the stars influ-

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76 “MYSTIC

ence human character and behav-
ior. They do, directly so!

These mentally disturbing rays
could be isolated, studied, some de-
fense against them attempted.
These rays and their effects upon
life were the original cause of the
construction of the caves. The
miles of rock insulation overhead
should help to keep out the harm-
ful effects. That they have not
done so for the cavern people of
today is no fault of the builders,
but the fault of the ignorance of
the original rediscoverers of the

- caves after the twin diasters of

sun-fire and water earth
nearly clean of life.

They turned the conductive
beams of the mechanisms upward,
bringing in sunlight . . bringing
in the same evil that afflicts us
on the surface with criminals. The
mechanisms were not meant to be
used as they used them, and as
time went on the inbuilt filters
and protective devices broke
down, letting in the degenerative
influence of the rays. Poured
through in concentrated form up-
on their own bodies, the cavern
dwellers were more adversely af-
fected by them than ourselves on
the surface.

So we have evil in the caves,
and we have evil upon the sur-
face. The religionists say God will

swept

destroy us all for this evil. Mystics

like ourselves can only ponder and

wonder where any solution can be
found, where any power can be
produced to combat evil. The
childish mental error that grows up
to become the adult evil is a pow-
er upon earth and under the earth,
today as in the far past. There
can be no true progress for man-
kind until this prime source of
evil is understood and fought at
its source, rather than on the fu-
tile battlefields of gory “glory”.

(Editor’s note: For those of our
readers who are not acquainted
with what has come to be called
“The Shaver Mystery”, it all be-
gan back in 1944, when Mr. Shav-
er penned a “warning to future
man“ in which he claimed the in-
terior of the earth was inhabited
(in a vast network of ancient pro-
tective caverns built by a noble
race long emigrated from the plan-
et) by a degenerate descendent of
this noble race, called by him
“abandondero” (and thus, for
short, dero), who, in their idiocy,
use the wonderful machines and
rays still workable, but contamin-
ated by radioactives called de“
which de-file all ‘positive thinking,
and by reversing its polarity, pro-
duce the evil that is live back-
ward) to plague surface mankind
and prevent them from any real
when “his

ict! fee saben Yee aie kat |

member Lemuria!”) it brought
ore than 50,000 letters from peo-
dle who claimed their own experi-
ences corroborated those of Shav-
In a four-year-long series of
ies, derived from a source
ed “thought records” (the ac-
lives of ancient men and wom-
recorded on imperishable metal
e which exist in the cavern li-
ies and were played back men-
tally to Shaver by friendly cav-
mn dwellers), the Shaver Mystery
tame a part of mystic knowl-
Bdge recognized the world over.
A vast argument raged, still un-
ettled one way or the other, as
© whether Shaver’s caves were
ea , and actually beneath our feet,
md could be found if searched
Or; or were psychic in nature,
and a manifestation of the region
mown as the lower astral, the re-
fon of the dead, or the religion-
sts’ hell. It is the purpose of
AYSTIC magazine to delve into
fis argument anew, and to pre-
ent all the evidence that can be
cured. As part of this search,
e will present from time to time,
om Mr. Shaver himself, his, own
eas concerning his mystery. We
50 invite the opinions, and, if
sible, the evidence of others,
ich we will be glad to publish.
z Evidence, we feel, will be as dif-
ult to present as evidence of life
fer death. Such adventures as
vers, and those who receive

A PLOT AGAINST OUR LIVES 77

visits from the dead, are almost
exclusively personal adventures,
and immediately they are related,

they become hearsay, second-
hand. Yet, there has already been
much proof.

How many readers know that
Shaver predicted the appearance
of the flying saucers, precisely, in
every detail? How many readers
know that he predicted the death
of Nikola Tesla by three days, and
that your editor still has the doc-
mentary proof in the form of a
postmarked letter three days pri-
or to the event?

What is the truth about the
Shaver Mystery. It is, today, in
the same category as the flying
saucers. No one doubts their ex-
istence—the proof is too over-
whelming. But WHAT are they?
That is the question. WHERE
do they come from? Shaver says

from the caves. Angelucci says
from the astral. Adamski says
from other planets. The army air

force says from outer space. Your
editor says from our own atmos-
phere, in another dimensional ex-
istence, co-existent with ours. Who
is right?

One thing seems reasonable—
science CAN prove the actuality,
because modern electronics has
provided wonderful mechanisms
capable of detecting what the eye
cannot ordinarily see, and detect
what the body cannot ordinarily

feel. ne

road switch and wreck a train, can

be detected by an electronic equip-
ment. An invisible planet in the
sky can be seen by radar. A sound-
less message from the stars can be
heard by the radio telescope. The
means are here. The proof may
already exist, and be held from us.
It is our purpose to dig it out, or
create it, if possible.

We are interested in knowing if
our readers would like to have the
entire Shaver Mystery presented,
in small instalments, from its very
beginning, this time with all the
fiction removed, and with all the

its source. If you would, please

write us and let us know what the
interest actually is. If sufficient,
one of the most amazing mysteries
of our time can be brought up to
date, made a usable file of infor-
mation, valuable to the “searcher
into the unknown.”

Your editor has “on file hun-
dreds of scientific discoveries made
since 1944-48, which were describ-
ed in full detail in the Shaver
“thought records”. Are they just
science “fiction”? We don’t think
so!

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Editor’s Note: Dorothy Spence Laver is a Psychometrist, spe-
cializing in precognition. Ordinarily she needs but an object
belonging to, or handled by, the subject, or the presence of
the subject, to become aware of the psychic influences from
which she draws her information. However, for the sake of
expediency in providing her with a sufficiently strong per-
sonal psychic impression, the editors of this magazine hit
upon the playing card method. By laying out the cards, while
concentrating, as described in the instructions given af the
end of this article, and by writing them down on the chart,
we hope that a sufficiently powerful psychic impression will
be made to enable the medium to receive the information
she seeks. We have made this service available to our readers
purely in an experimentotive atmosphere, in an attempt, first,
to determine whether or not this ability is of a nature both
real and valuable; and second, to provide you with an
interesting bit of entertainment. Naturally we cannot publish
all the requests for readings we receive, but we will forward
all charts to Mrs. Lauer, asking her to select several which
give her the strongest and most interesting impression, for
publication entirely free in this department of MYSTIC Maga-
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will be glad to forward your letters.

YOUR FUTURE

Sarah Walker
To Yourself:
~ You should be very happy, be-
cause things look quite good in your
chart. However, you may have one
“ disappointment between now and
June. There seems to be something
coming up which could cause you
to feel very depressed, but if you
do nothing about this and permit
things to take their own course, this
will work out exceptionally well. A
friend of yours may be in a great
deal of difficulty and you should
definitely do whatever you can to
help this person. This person will
be so depressed that only you seem
‘to be able to cheer them up.
To Your Home:
Something over which you have
felt very badly-and this is in re-
‘gard to another person-seems to
have a few setbacks. You should-
Tmt be hasty where this person is
concerned, nor listen to advice from
pren- meaning friends, as this could
e a separation. This is all
going to turn out all right but you,
yourself, will have a lot to do with

fany times you walk around your
e thinking of your wish, and

wondering if it will ever material-

ize. I feel you will be surprised at
the outcome and again I urge you

ot to do anything to force the is-
Someone wants you to sign a
important paper,

but you

YOUR FUTURE 81

could suffer quite a loss through
this. I urge you to be very careful
here.
What You Don’ t Expect:
Someone who has quite a temper
may vent their feelings on you.
This person has had their own way
for so long that any opposition
causes them to have almost a
tantrum. Regardsless of what they
say they will do, I am sure most
of it is simply talk.
Sure To Come:
Things are going to change much
for the better for you. Several
things you have almost given up
hope of obtaining will now mater-
ialize. Finances are going to be
better than they have been for
quite some time. Someone very dear
to you will have unusual success in
their work.
Surprise:
Someone whom you have wanted to
see for quite some time will come
to your home rather suddenly. For
some reason, Sarah, you seem to
be almost confused as you talk to
this person, but I feel if you will
just be your own self, you will gain
more. This person must be ex-
tremely important to make you
feel this way.
ee
Mrs. Fred O. Stalnaker
To Yourself: ;
You are indeed going to be very
pleased about something a man
says to you: Now he is going to say

82 * MYSTIC

many of the things you have always
wanted him to say. For some rea-
Son, this will almost shock you, as

this very same person has opposed |

you to a great extent.
To Your Home:
There may be talk of a residential
move, but I feel this will be de-
layed. Someone comes from a dis-
tance, and you seem extremely
pleased over this. Something you
possess, which is quite valuable,
may be misplaced or lost. I feel
that by being forewarned about this,
vou will take extremely good care
of this valuable possession.
To Your Desire:
There appears to be something
which is holding this desire from
you; either through a ‘person or
conditions, it would be impossible
for this desire to materialize very
soon. In fact, I see several old de-
__ sires being granted before this one
is.
What You Don’t Expect:
You will receive two letters from a
distance; one has extremely good
news in it, and the other contains
something of a scandalous nature.
You should not answer this last
letter. Two people want to talk to
‘you in regard to someone very dear
to you. Unless this person is pre-
sent with you at this time, it would
be better not ‘to talk to 8 two
people:
Sure To Come:
Many people a going 0 tel you

their troubles, for some reason. You
are a person, Mrs. Stalnaker, who
is usually very helpful to everyone.
However, you will become a little
aggravated inasmuch as you will
feel they are not heeding your ad-
vice anyway. You will be among
quite a few people whom you
haven’t seen for a long, long
time, and the circumstances under
which you will see them will also
be quite a surprise.
Surprise:
You should take care of your health.
This is nothing serious, but you
shouldn’t neglect any symptoms
which might show up. Things for
the future look quite good for you.
„ * *
Mrs. Louis Kimbell
To Yourself:
Three people cause you to bea
little concerned and you will have
to handle this with a great deal
of diplomacy. Could it be possible
that someone would bring a child
into your home and ask you to
take care of the child? This would
be all right for a short period of
time, but not indefinitely.
To Vour Home:
Many things have been on your
mind... several of these you
have hesitated mentioning to an-
other member of your family, but
very shortly you will be forced to
do this and you will be surprised at
their attitude. Be a little cautious

of going somewhere in the evening.

Someone says something to you
that could cause you .to feel very
badly. If this person would be at
this gathering, it would be better
or you not to attend.
To Your Desire:
Vou will have to wait a little while
for your wish to be granted. Some-
thing of a surprising nature will
take place before it materializes.
ou have been disappointed because
vou haven't obtained this, but you
Will just have to have a little more
patience. You are also going to re-
‘ceive a telephone call from quite a
long distance and will be quite sur-
‘prised at the news you will hear.
What You Don’t Expect:
Could you oppose someone who
Wishes to move into your home?
his does not seem to be advisable
‘unless it is absolutely necessary.
Sure To Come:
You are going to be successful over
someone who has put obstacles in
Your path. Several times it will
seem as if this person has gained
their point but, in reality, they
haven't. You are going to take a
young person into a very large
building, and some sort of a deci-
on will be made in regard to this
Surprise:
A woman who talks to you rather
sarcastically really is ill, and you
ould not handle this person the
ý e way you would someone who
nscious of all their actions,

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83

Mrs. Kimbell.
eas ibis
R. L. Maethner:
To Yourself;
News of a disturbing nature will
reach you rather soon. Someone
suddenly comes to you for advice
. . this person is in such a con-
fused state of mind that you should
be very careful what advice you
give them. Something which you
have thought was out of your life
now comes back into it.
To Your Home:
There have been upset conditions
around you for quite some time,
and you seem a little skeptical as
to future happiness. Within three
months, though, you should see
quite a change for the better, I
urge you not to become cynical to
the point that you don’t believe in
people. Let past conditions remain
in the past, and do look to the fu-
ture with optimism.
To Your Desire:
Yes, you surely have had your
share of disappointments and upset
conditions. Even as you made the
chart out, you were very dubious
about obtaining the wish you had in
mind. I am sorry that I do not see
this wish materializing but, later
on, you will realize that it was just
as well it didn’t. You will make
new wishes which will bring you a
great deal of happiness. You will
“also look back and see that many
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your own good.
What You Don’t Expect:
Someone is a little hesitant about
telling you their true feelings
about many matters. Perhaps at
times you appear to be very stern
and this may be what is holding
this person back. Then, too, you
may appear to be so stern in order
to avoid more disappointments.
However, with this one particular
person, you can definitely be your-
self without fear of being misun-
derstood.
Sure To Come:
Be careful of making an impulsive
change. A man has it in his mind
to do something that will be very
beneficial for you, and you should
definitely let this man know how
very grateful you are.
Surprise:
You will be asked to keep some-
thing very confidential, and
something will come up which
tempts you to tell the person what
was told to you. This would cause
a great deal of unhappiness.
8

Mr. A. Duguay

To Yourself:

Vou are indeed going to have to be
very careful about making rash de-
cisions. As I first held your chart
it seemed as if you were very up-
set at the time you filled it in.
Things are slowly working for your
benefit, though. Two obstacles are
going to have to be met very

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shortly.

To Your Home:

You will talk to a man in regard
to a business condition which could
turn out very well. However, every
word this person says should be
weighed . . . the person extending
you this opportunity is a very
shrewd business man. This person
draws you into conversation to get
your viewpoints on things. Be very
careful of what you say. A woman
is rather upset over you. She has
either shed tears or will.

To Your Desire:

There are many changes ahead
for you and many times you will
not be granted, there will be entire-
ly new paths opening in your life
for you, and while your wish will
not come, you will look back and
be glad it did not materialize,
What You Don’t Expect:

Could you, or anyone around you,
have trouble with the throat? This
condition clears up for a while and
then recurs. A physician should de-
finitely be consulted. Also, you are
going to be very frank with four
people who have upset you quite a
bit. Don’t be surprised if you hur-
riedly put things into a suitcase
and go quite a distance. =
Sure To Come:

You had your mind on many things
as you filled in this chart. Do not
neglect writing someone who is very
concerned over not hearing from
you. Usually you have a very nice

P

position, but something has
me up rather unexpectedly which
caused you to be a little tem-
ramental of late, This is a cycle
zu are going through which may
t another three or four months.

month of August looks excep-
mally good for you. You meet
fee or four new people, and you
mid not turn away from these

wo people have tried to change
jar mind about many things you
e had your heart set on. They
done this far too often, and
Should be very firm and re-
ise to give up these things.
ó Your Home:
meone is going to tell
hood in connection with some-
of whom you think a great
By all means, turn your back
this as there definitely is no
uth in it. Conditions around the
are going to improve a great
lal. Two people are very determin-
to cause changes around you that
do not want to take place. This
ding to be very important, and
ge you to follow the advice
en in the above column.
Vour Desire:
i wish has a very good. chance
taking place very suddenly,
„Reed, and will result in many

YOUR FUTURE

you a

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changes taking place much to your
benefit. Also, financial conditions
are going to improve, and a con-
fused state of mind will now clear
up. Your chart looks exceptionally
good.
What You Don’t Expect:
An elderly person will ask a very
large favor of you. You should do
all you possibly can for this per-
son, even though two others seem
to oppose your doing this,
Sure To Come:
Things that have been very dear to
your heart will now materialize.
You are very fortunate in having
someone think a great deal of you
who is very loyal and sincere. You
are going to have quite a talk with
this person and will be quite amazed
at the depth of this person’s feel-
ings for you.
Surprise:
A very young couple come to your
home unexpectedly with good news,
Also, there could be someone com-
ing from a distance to see you. You
hear news from a distance, a little
on the sad side. There will be
something extra for you to do be-
tween June and September, and this
is something you are not contem-
plating at present. You will know
of no way to get out of this, but it
will be all right, thant

*
Mrs. get B. Rosenquist
To Yourself:
Do you become exceedingly irritated

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with someone? Very soon things are
coming to a climax with this per-
son, and you will be surprised at
the outcome, wishing you had
spoken to them about this ‘before.
This is something you have with-
held doing because you were afraid
of the outcome.

To Your Home:

There will be a change taking place
in your home much for the better.
Finances look to be a little better
and there could be quite a few things
purchased which you have wanted
for some time. Do not turn your
back on someone who is very sin-
cere with you.

To Your Desire:

Your wish or desire will not take
place as soon as you would like it
to; in fact, you may have a disap-
pointment and a delay and several
times you will think I was wrong
in saying you would ever have it.
At present there are three obstacles
in the way of your attaining it, and
these are what is causing the delay.
What You Don’t Expect:

You are going to be among many,

many people. On several occasions,
it is for pleasant entertainment and
on others it is in connection with
business. It seems, too, that you
may be asked to do something for
one of these groups which will come
as quite a surprise to you, You are
a very capable person, though, and
should go ahead with this.
Sure To Come:
Your wish appears to be extremely
important to you, and when this
does take place, it will be well
worth any delay that has been
connected with it. You are going to
receive a letter, Mrs. Rosenquist,
with some very exciting news in it.
I urge you not to be impulsive
where an older person is concerned
this person needs a great deal
of understanding,

Surprise:
Sometimes you worry about things
that will never happen. Things

look quite good for you, and any-
thing mentioned above that seem

to be a little on the discouraging

side are only showing up so that

you may be prepared.

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n reply to a letter from Clayton
Reder, June Mystic, you refer to
electronic telescope invented by
“ote Reber and the reception of
sing noises in intelligent se-
mee. Also that we are not be-
told what these signals tell us.
would like to say that these mess-
are coded by nature and that
e intelligence we get from them
a reflection of our own intelli-
nee. Identical noises are received
9m fluorescent lamps and in their
are just as mysterious as the
ses received from the distant
ars. I do enjoy your magazine and
Ope you will endeavor to keep the
is straight.

A. E. Covington
269 Pleasant Park Road
3 Ottawa 1, Ont. Canada.
What was that you said again?
€ the government spend $4 mil-
to “reflect their own intelli-

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7 have never written to MYSTIC
fore, but could. not let Mrs. Ellen

s go unchallenged, I think she
puld re-read “The Golden Kit-
m” by Charles Lee. Personally I
ould like to see more stories by
u, because I think it is one of the
in stories ever written. Not
y as a story of fiction, but
o the general idea it conveyed.
When I was a child we had a
iiti-colored cat that insisted on
ng birth to one black kitten.

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Letters from the Undead

Not black one in every litter, but.
a black one every time the preceed-
ing black one died from any cause,
“Blackie” never lasted over a few
short months and I can still re-
member taking “Lucky” in my
arms and crying to her that my
Blackie was gone and begging her
to bring it back and then
waiting for the next litter. A chil-
dish idea and a childish faith?
Yes, I'll admit that, but Lucky
never failed me. And Blackie was
always born with his eyes open,
and not only washed his own face
the second or third day, but also
washed the rest of the kittens, or

tried. to.
Mrs. Waunda E. Lang
5254 W 119th Place
Inglewood 2, Calif,

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Dear Mr. Palmer:

I note in the current issue @
letter by Mrs. Ellen Beers stating
that “kittens do not have their
eyes open the first morning after
birth.” My wife and I, during 47
years of most happy marriage,
raised many kittens, as we were
both lovers of the feline family.
On one or two occasions, some of
our kittens were born with their
eyes open.

I am now in my 85th year, and
have seen many marvelous

Henry Diehl
20 Orange Place,
Irvington, N. J

And that would seem to settle

the kitten argument! Also, Mrs.

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Beers has resubscribed, and we are
all very happy. Kinda proud of
MYSTIC’s sensible little a
Rap.

* è è
Mr. Palmer:

I have before me a reply to a
letter which I had written to Mrs.
Pansy E. Black, of San Antonio
Texas, hoping to persuade her to
write the story of her other known
lives. Few people have this in-
sight, in fact, I have only ever met
one other person who had this fac-
ulty. Other than being a John
Hopkins graduate, and one of the
archeologists who assisted in the
opening of King Tut’s tomb, he
spoke of far distant places where
few white men have ever been just
as you and I might speak of a
shopping tour down Main Street.
In other words, he was nobody’s
fool. So it is with Mrs. Black. She
is a person of ability. No question
about it. And she can write. And
she does have “something on the
ball.“

However she will have no part
in that story for Mystic Magazine
because of the ridicule directed to
her other letters and which was
one big mistake. I wonder if you
know of the interest that her let-
ters have aroused? Not only has
there been mail from across the
United States, but letters have
come from Canada, Mexico and
England as well. You see, Mr.
Palmer, it does not really matter
how much we “strangle at a gnat
and swallow a camel,” reincarna-
tion is still a natural law that
does not need the defense of any-
one. We have but to look about us
to see its expression everywhere,

particularly at this season of the

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year, and there is no denying that
it was part of the ministry and
teaching of Jesus Christ. In fact,
it was a philosophy so well estab-
lished that it had a place in our
early church dogma, For more than
three hundred years after the cru-
cifixion it was preached as the
only means of reconciling the ex-
istance of suffering, inherited de-
formities, and disease, with a just
and merciful God.

Justin Martyr (100-167 A. D.),
the greatest authority on church
history up to the middle of the
second century, expressly speaks
of the soul’s inhabiting more than
one body. St. Clement, Bishop of
Alexandria (150-215 A. D.) who
brought the culture and philosphy
of the Greeks to the Christian
Church, and who was the teacher
of Origen, also held and taught
this doctrine. Then too there was
St. Gregory, of Nyssa (329-884),
St. Jerome (340-420), Arnobius
Rufius (345-410), and St. Augus-
tine (354-430 A. D.). These were
the great men of their day. They
built the very foundations of to-
day’s church philosophy regardless
of the fact that it has been warped,
bent, twisted and mutilated to meet
the present views and standards
of various sects and denominations.

I bring this to your attention
because of your letter of a few
days ago asking that I renew my

-subscription to Mystic Magazine.

Where, may I ask, will it benefit
me? What would make it worth-
while? I buy metaphysical papers,
books, and magazines for learning
and enlightment. It is not a whim,
or a fancy. I have spent thirty-
five of my sixty-seven years in
the study of church history, and

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ie through many translations,
rough a twenty-eight volume
ition on evolution and anthro-
ogy, and several versions of the
ble, to arrive at my conclusions
put me in Mrs. Black's corner.
E only that, alone, but the great-
majority of the entire world’s
nl tion is there too. Especially
view of reincarnation. In
their mingled languages they
ak of the eternal cycle of life,
| of the transition that men call

Merritt L. Gruver

350 Church St.
7 Catasauqua, Pa.
© answer your last question
» the reason you should Te-
J your subscription is the very
that you are a student! Why
on your laurels, with the books
we read? Why not read more?
nw the other side of the story.
d not ridicule Mrs. Black. Is
yreeing a form of ridicule? We
eed, and the published words
e record. And now, we must
gree with you. We strangle at
mat. You make a statement.
“say: “Reincarnation is a na-
law.” How so? The diction-
defines “natural” law (as dis-
ed from man-made law) as
niform occurrence of natural
a in the same way or ord-
the same conditions, 80
human knowledge goes.”
‘rule of civil conduct deduc-
the common reason and
ce of mankind.” Since

does not believe in rein-
it is not deducible from
mon reason. and conscience
inkind, therefore it is not a
law. There are no excep-
natural law. What is your

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proof? You merely quote a multi-
plicity of “philosophys”. And most
of them are nearly 2000 years re-
moved from us. You are convinced
because it is the “only means” (!)
of reconciling the existence of suf-
fering, inherited deformities, ete.
It is not the only means. To my
way of thinking (which is not posi-
tive) it is not the means. As for
quoting the Bible, see one of the
following letters. As for seeing the
expression of reincarnation every-
where in this season of the year.
(spring) we just don’t follow you.
Is this leaf we see coming forth
the leaf that fell last fall? How
could it be—we still have the leaf!
And the leaf is not the tree, nor
did the tree die. When it does die,
it will remain dead, to be replaced
by other trees. Not the same tree,
but others. There are more trees
now than when trees began to grow
on earth. If all are reincarnations,
whence comes their number?
Whence comes the first?—Rap.
eee

Ray:

This reincarnation idea sounds
sorta un-Christian—anti-Christian:
if man is his own saviour via re-
peat-lives, he has no need of Christ?
Rather puzzling that the scriptures
are almost silent on reincarna-
tion; strange that a subject so
vital is omitted in the New Testa-
ment. What do you think?

No one I know chose to reincar-
nate. These memories of prior lives
might be impressions caused by
spirits; is it improbable that Aunt
Emma who “comes through” might
be an impersonation? I would need
better proof—or better evidence to
answer doubt.

That impressions are from out-

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side, (not of our conscience or sub-
conscious); I have several times
dreamed of objects as well as
scenes or events that I could never
have known or seen heretofore—
nor imagined—and later these
scenes and objects were seen in
the physical! Hence an impression
of event from a “prior live” could
come from the same source?

My Bible reads that “It is given
unto man once to die, then the

t.“ One death is to say
ONE life! The New Testament says
more about ONE life than rein-
carnation. What shall we believe?
Lin Clark
Box 132
Abington, Conn.
Ó *

Dear Mr. Palmer:

You seem to be wavering on the
subject of reincarnation. Perhaps
that attitude is due to a desire to
provoke (or evoke) argument and
discussion. Well, here is a bit of
an argument on the positive side:

I have always had an innate be-
lief if an All-wise, All-good, com-
passionate Deity, the creator of
this solar system and everything
animate and inanimate in it, Who
has projected Himself into every
particle of it. How could such a
God spend his time creating mil-
lions of new souls every day and
then condemning large proportion
of them to everlasting punishment?

In all his infinite power where
could He find a Hell large enough
to accommodate all the souls so
condemned since the beginning of
Time? It is illogical, uneconomic.
What is the answer? There is only
one: Evolution and ation.
I reached this conclusion by pure
reason, long before I ever con-

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tacted occultism. But when I did,
it clarified my thinking, revealed
the Great Design, and I learned
the Purpose of Life.

You are too well versed in para-
normal affairs to becloud your
writings with doubt. Your friend
Dr. Paul M. Vest has the right
attitude—go along with him and
help dispel the cloud of ignorance
that besets. the world, and help
make it a better place to live in.

W. M. Steele
942 West 48rd St.
Houston, Texas

Just what is an “inate” belief?
One you were born with? Who says
God creates millions of souls each
day, then condemns a large propor-
tion of them to everlasting punish-
ment? Also, this business of where

to find room for them—how about

Einstein's theory of relativity? It
provides ample room for every- —
thing. Even we poor humans can
understand Finstien. Also, this be-
ginning—of time. Aren’t you as-
suming? How could it have a be-
ginning? It has no end either. You
speak of time as of an entity, when
all scientists tell you that none
of them know what time is. Our
only concept of it is mechanical, a
measure of duration. What is the
Great Design, and the Purpose of
Life? Having thought it all out,
now you can tell the rest of us.
You think in words; repeat them
for us. Frankly, you have us itch-
ing with curiosity. Just think, the
answer to it all, right here, within
our grasp, and your letter doesn't
put it down! Just the bald state-
ment that you have it, then

you deny it to us. For: ness
— don't tantalize us like that!
Rap.

w Rap:

Much interested in the debate
ween you and Miss Black in
issue. I would like to enter a
sibflity which neither of you
fe taken into account, The pos-
lity of cellular memory. It is
en that each cell in the human
y has a sort of memory (ra-
and this memory allows each
to form in the place where it
s. There are millions of cells
he human body and many dif-
at types of cells which form
y different types of tissue.
does each cell know how to
so that it will be skin tissue
S instance) and not liver tissue
brain tissue? Racial memory.
skin cells form in the proper
for skin because they re-
ber” how they should be. Often
all or several cells “forget” and
h we have a harelip or a tumor
te there should be none. (Act-
the cells that form the heart
d form ‘a tumor if misplaced.)
Uming that this is true, then
t 50 outlandish to assume also
the brain cells (nine tenths
ich apparently have no known
at present) remember also?

f this hypothesis everything
done by any ancestor would
remembered.” The dominant
tors’ lives would be remem-
d best. Hence, perhaps, your
ory of a past life at your an-
res home in Dresden, Germany.
ps that other 9/10’s of the
will be found to be a store-
e of experiences of ancestors.

neestor’s life would be for-
ist as you can’t remember

ould be safe to assume that
or all of the minor incidents.

f SD GSO

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now what you did on Aug. 5, 1934
unless it had a special significance
for you, but you may remember
what you were doing on Dee. 7,
1941 because it is an important
date in most of our lives. It’s an
intriguing possibility, and one that
should not be overlooked in the
reincarnation debate, Good work all
around in Mystic.
June Weidemann
607 S. Jackson St.
New Athens, III.

We think there’s a hole in your
racial memory idea, too. Remem-
ber the initial cell is just a plain
cell, and if it just reproduced it-
self, it would remain only a larger
and larger mass of the same kind
of cell. It is the genes and chromo-
somes each cell contains (and each
contains them all!) that determine
the color of hair, eyes, skin, ete.
What your theory doesn’t explain,
is how the particular, chromosome
or gene remembers when it is its
turn to act, and how to act! We
believe it is not an action, but a
reaction—in other words, the gene
or chromosome goes into “action
when it is prodded into action, and
the identity of the prodder is still
not identified by science.—Rap.

+ * +
Dear Mr. Palmer:

I would love to expose my three
cents worth in your interesting and
helpful magazine. I believe I have
every issue so far. The prediction
by Mr. Ashby in The Man from
Tomorrow, April issue, regarding
a future dominant religion based
on reincarnation really stirred me.

It seems. the theory of ee

nation (repeated rebirths in the

physical body)

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perstition and error easily take
root in the consciousness of us
simple and trustng souls; likewise
in the consciousness of those who
eannot conceive of higher states of
being than that of the earth plane.

As its dogma, the school of reincar-
nationists assumes that the earth
is the only place within the Cre-
ator’s infinite universe whereon di-
vine justice can be administered.
It assumes that the law of conse-
quences by which every act receives
its exact recompense—can only be
possible of application through a
succession of earth lives.

The ideas are thoroughly mater-
ialistic. It is an attempt of the
external mind to harmonize good
and evil. There is nothing of high
intuition or true spiritual know-
ledge in the theory, and it has
never been taught by true adepts,
or those who have penetrated be-
yond the astral zones.

The seeming proofs advanced by
some who “remember” their past
lives lie buried in the mysteries of
mediumship, whereby some sensi-
tive natures come en rapport with
invisible entities: In this condition
a semi-transfer of identity takes
place and the sensitive person
seems to exist in some previous
age, and under such circumstances
becomes deceived by his own ig-
norance. He believes he is recall-
ing some incarnation of the past—
that is, if he is acquainted with
the doctrines of the reincarnation-
ists. Otherwise, he may think it
a day dream. But all this is due
to the simple action of mediumship,
and is delusion of identity.

The theory has been foisted on
mankind by ignorant, earth-bound
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94 MYSTIC

oriental sacradotal systems. It
a stumbling block to students of
mysticism, for the belief tends to
keep the soul in bondage to the
earth plane, waiting in the astral
to be reincarnated again, where
as he should progress onward.

There is a teaching in regard ta
incarnation, but it has nothing
do with the repeated re-birth sys-
tem. This idea of incarnation con
cerns the descent of the soul monad
from the spiritual realm to the
material. In the descent, the soul
monad passes through many con-
ditions of subjective life before it
reaches the external—or stage of
matter. When the lowest point of
materiality is reached, a change
of polarity s experienced by the
soul atom and it starts on its wa
back up the ladder of life on the
objective plane. But there is no
repetition in nature. Once and once
only is the law.

Let us lift our consciousness be-
yond the dull veil of. external ap-
pearances.

Beth E. Pomeroy

Dear Ray:

Just digested June Mystic. Splen-
did Ray, Splendid! I love your
edtorial. Why is it that “love” is.
such a strange and forsaken word
these days? To anyone wishing the
true answer to that question, I
say, turn to Oahspe, for there

Since I consider ‘Oahspe” to be the
highest 3 that has come my

—

„ (and I have studied all ma-
world religions and masses of
ence and arguments in support
e-incarnation”), may I just
ent, in a brief manner, the ex-
nations found in “Oahspe”, the
acle of the ages?
A, 21,
stor is speaking:
And as I have quickened the
| of the first born, so will I
ken all seed to the end of the
h. And each and every man-
i and woman-child born into
will I quicken with a new spir-
Which shall proceed out of Me
je time of conception. Neither
I give to any spirit of the
or lower heaven power to
r a womb, or a fetus of a
ib, and be born again.
lage 767, v 8, God, Jehovih’s
Governor of this planet Earth
ing the present cycle, speaks:
In likeness of the father
mother are all children born
the world; and every child is
creation, quickened into life
presence of the Creator,
o is the All Life.”
e 537, v 27-28: Chine, ancient
oh ot of Jehovih and founder of
la speaks:
mine said: The Ever Present
neth him (man) ‘into life in
Fathers womb and he is then
there a. new creation, his spir-
rom the Spirit of Jehovih, and
body from the earth; a dual
f g the Father ereateth him.
destination is everlasting
275 in which matter, man
j delightful» labor as he
een forever and ever.“
ge 26, v 9, Jehovih speaks:
énce the first of man, the new
babe, I created a blank in

Jehovih, the

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sense and judgment, that he may
be a witness that even he himself
was fashioned and created anew by
My hand. Neither created I him
imperfectly, that he should re-en-
ter a womb and be born over again.
That which I do is well done, saith
Jehovih.”

In connection with the foregoing
quote, some may ask: “What about
those babes born with imperfect
bodies?” We are speaking now of
the spirit of man. The body is but
a temporary house for that spirit.
A newly born imperfect body is. the
result of interference, knowingly, or
unknowingly, of negative mortal
mind power, with the natural posi-
tive creative forces. This is a deep
and vast subject by itself and does
not concern us in this particular
dscussion.

Page 251, v 20, Zarathustra, an-
cient prophet of Jehovih speaks:

“As it was in the olden time, so
will it be again ere another gener-
ation pass away. Drujas will teach
that the spirits of the dead go into
trees and flowers, and inhabit
them; and into swine, and cattle,
and birds, and into woman, and
are born over again in mortal
form. Argue not with them; their
philosophy concerneth not thee.
Whether they be in darkness or in
light, judge thou by the glory and
beauty of the heavens where they
live. If their words are of the
earth, they belong to the earth; if
they are servants to false Gods and
and false Lords, they will preach
him whom they serve. But these

matters are nothing to thee; for

thou shalt serve the All Highest,
the Creator. In this no man can
atra giri

Page 449, v 11-12, dealing with

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the land of Egypt just following
the building of the Great Pyramid,
we read:

“Suffice it, these spirits lost all
sight of any higher heavens than
to dwell on the earth; they knew
no other. And they watched about
when children were born, and ob-
sessed them, driving hence the nat-
ural spirit, and growing up in the
new body of the newborn, calling
themselves reincarnated; and these

drujas professed that when they
previously lived on earth they were
great kings, or queens, or philoso-
phers.

“And they taught as their master,
Osiris, the false, did: That there
was no higher heaven than here on
the earth, and that men must be re-
incarnated over and over until the
flesh becomes immortal. Not all of
these spirits drove hence the nat-
ural spirit; but many merely en-
grafted themselves on the same
body; and, whilst such persons
lived, these spirits lived with them
and dwelt with them day and
night; not knowing more than their
mortal companion. And when such
persons died, behold, the druja
went and engrafted itself on an-
other child, and lived and dwelt
with it in the same way; and thus

taught reincarnaton.” (Moses, in
reference to the E

Page 488, v 12-15, “Now, ‘behold,
there were millions of angels in
those days who knew no other life,
but to continue engrafting them-
selves on mortals. And when one
mortal died,, they went and en-
grafted themselves on another.

“These were the fruit of the
teaching of the false Gods, who had
put away the All Highest, Jehovih.
They could not be persuaded that
etherea was filled with habitable
worlds. i

“And they professed that they
had been re-incarnated many
times, and that, previously, they
had been great kings or philoso-

phers. 5

“Some of them remembered the
jiay’an period of a thousand
years, and, so, hoped to regain `
their natural bodies and dwell
again on the earth, and forever.
Hence was founded the story that
every thousand years a new incar- |
nation would come to the spirits
of the dead.”

This is sufficient quotation from
Oahspe to show its explanation of
the condition erroneously called “re-
incarnation”. Perhaps those advo-
eates and teachers of re-incarna-
tion will say: “So what? You
have simply quoted from a book
called Oahspe. Is that infallible?”

Let the book itself answer; page

2, v 24,
“Not ‘infallible is this 7 8 5 Oah-

ust as Oahspe is not infallible;
sa those sources, books and
ichings that are spreading the
d and false propaganda of re-
ation are not infallible. To
se teachers of re-incarnation, I
7; You have no moral right to
ad such a philosophy among

and con, concerning that phil-
phy; and until vou have care-
ly studied Oahspe clear through,
have not studied all available
Study Oahpse; then if
L still believe in re-incarnation
still desire to teach it, the
vilege is yours, and so is the re-
nsibility yours!
s for compensating for sins,
ongs, or injuries committed in
mortal life, we are given am-
opportunity to correct our err-
| and pay off our obligations to
ers in the First Resurrection, im-
fiately following physical death
soon there-after, Again, Oahspe
ches the simplest, most sensible
i of compensation ever studied
is writer.
he memory flashes of past his-
and so-called previous exist-
es, so freely used as proof“ of
acarnation, are but memory
s of engrafted, or possessive
its being projected into our
scious mind. At this very time,
fe is probably not one human
ig on this earth who is not car-
ig around one or more engraft-
Spirits who, because they were
ly taught that they must re-
ate, do not know how to rise
away from earth and into the
er heavens. Beware of earth

philosophies!

er to learn about our Cre-

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ator’s Etherean worlds and heav-
ens now, in this. present life; to
correct my errors and pay my ob-
ligations as I live, when possible;
and most of all fo live in such a
manner that nothing will hinder me
from advancing ever onward
through the Creator’s scheme of
things, without imposing myself
as a burden upon some poor inno-
cent babe born on this earth at
some future time. In short: my
philosophy, my religion, is—LOVE!

LeRoy G. Powell,

Harlem, Montana

Well, it looks as if our readers
can argue about reincarnation
quite well. Lots of ideas in these
foregoing letters, and lots to think
about and digest. Keeps your ed-
itor busy tool How many more
readers have something to say
about this? We'll print all we can.
—Rap.

+ „ *
Dear Mr. Webster:

Please don't allow your name to
be used in connection with such
periodicals as MYSTIC. Sincere
devotees of FATE will automatic-
ally subscribe (as I did), only to
find themselves perusing—with a
feeling of outrage— a somewhat
messy anthology of the editor’s in-
ner psyche. 5

Life is full of people whe wave
their psyche’s about. A sympathe-
tic listener will “take” as much as
he can stand, and a psychiatrist
will listen to far more—at a price.
However, one buys a magazine or
book for pleasure and information

only.

ons on your wonder-
ful 8 the Which 1 walt tor
each month.

(Name withheld) Ae

*

The foregoing letter is an exam-
ple of the unethical things your ed-
itor sometimes does. He's a sort
of Judas who would kiss a pig for
œ porkchop. However, it happens
that your editor is one of the two
founders of FATE, and half-own-
er, although he does not now edit
the magazine as he did for
several years. This job is perform-
ed by our partner. A bit of humor
ere. We started FATE, to pre-
sent just what it presents today,
for just such people as (name
withheld). We started MYSTIC
so we could retain FATE on ite
own plane out of a tremendous de-
sire to keep (name withheld) sat-
isfied with the magazine. We RE-
ALIZED that some of the material

we publish in MYSTIC, could not
go into FATE, so we started a new
magazine. We respect the wishes
of ALL our readers, both for FATE
and MYSTIC. We give them our
best. And when we do not satisfy,
we ALWAYS refund any money
paid for something unwanted. We

have always made that plain. Well,

we snitched this letter (a very
underhanded trick!) and are pub-
lishing it in MYSTIC without per-
mission. But we DO have to ex-
plain even to (name withheld) that
we are not impo. upon him. We
are sorry that he MYSTIC and
found our psyche in the way. But

our psyche is in FATE also. FATE

is an integral part of our psyche.
It is a realized dream, an ambition
-come true, the expression of our

1 < «psyche that we have found most

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2

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3

flesh of our flesh, blood of our
blood, and mind of our mind! And
because we know that it isn’t nice
to impose our psyche where it isn't
wanted, in its wilder phases, our
starting MYSTIC, just to avoid
this, ought to prove we aren't
“waving” our psyche in anybody's
face! However, we do agree with
(name withheld) in one respect
it sure would be worth everything
a psychiatrist charged us to listen
to us—if we ever really unburden-
ed ourselves to him! He'd never
get a word in edgewise, and we'd
talk for twenty years. Poor guy!
But then, all psychiatrists must be
introverte. If they were extroverts,
their psyches would show! Be-
sides, somebody’s got to do the lis-
tening !—Rap,

8 0

Dear Mr. Palmer:

This ineident may seem fantas-
tic, for in a material sense it bears
little weight, and after reading it
you will probably. doubt the truth
of my statement. The memorable
incident occurred during the win
ter of 1941, while residing | in an
isolated section of New York State.
I was alone at the time awake and
aware of my surrounding. Al-
though, it was unusual, I was not
disturbed, for 1 have experienced
similar occurrences. A

Outside, the ground was covered
beneath a blanket of snow, and the
light of a winter moon flooded the
desolate 5 3 a A

the wailing of the wind as it lash-
ed the brush and trees that grew
along the frozen river banks, A
clock in an adjoining room struck
ten, and a shutter creaked on its
= rusty hinges.
I lay upon my back, one arm
_ resting at my side, the other re-
elining from the edge of the couch,
my hand within a few inches of
the floor, when suddenly something
soft and silky brushed my finger-
tips. My first thoughts were of
my German shepherd, but the dog
‘was not at home, and the fur my
fingers encountered was not like
T Pals. The thing moved slightly
and as I drew back my hand, my
fingers came in contact with some-
thing that felt like the head of a
huge cat.
I was somewhat startled, for I
realized that the creature might be
a bobeat that had wandered from
the hills in search of food, and by
chance had entered the house. My
hand moved toward the silky throat,
but strong jaws closed gently upon
my wrist. I struggled in an effort
to free my hand, and in doing so,
I rolled from the couch landing
' squarely upon a powerful body that
squirmed from beneath me as it
released its grip upon my wrist.
A chain attached to a golden
collar about the creature’s throat
tightened and as it drew back I
‘caught a glimpse of the prowler;
it was a cheetah; (a hunting leop-
ard of India). My gaze wandered
upward from the cat to a green
Clad figure that held the chair. It
was a woman, and the loveliest I
ever seen. Her countenance
e éd a bronze statue, that had
been exposed to the elements until
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THE SEANCE CIRCLE 99

highlights showing white with a
greenish tint.

Her sheer garment and sari
seemed to float about her, and re-
vealed more than it concealed of
her supple body. Hers was a
strange beauty. Oriental in a sense,
yet alien to this world, Her eyes were
dark, wide apart, and queerly
slanted, and within their smolder-
ing depths was a familiarity of our
past intimacy. She was the type
of beauty found in Southeastern
Asia. She stood framed in the
doorway smiling down upon me; it
seemed that I had known her, at
some time, and in some other place,
but when and where?

“Who are vou?“ I asked, but
she hesitated as she beat a tattoo
with her dainty sandaled foot upon
the floor boards, and inclining her
head slightly she replied: “Think,
think well!” The huge cat lay at
its mistress’ feet, as she smiled
knowingly upon me, sitting on the
floor in an awkward attitude. She
sighed deeply, and as I stretched
out my hand to determine whether
she was of solid form, or just an
illusion, she and the cheetah van-
ished.

I scrambled to my feet; the en-
tire room was filled with a dull
gray haze that appeared to be
smoke from the fireplace, but it
cleared instantly, and in place of
the smoke odor, the scent of jas-
mine hung heavily in the air. I
glanced at my wristwatch which
convinced me that it was five min-
utes past ten, and after a survey
of the house, I was convinced that
my experience was not the work of
human agency. The house itself
was no entity, and I knew that the

incident was not due to optical il-

100

lusion, or hallucination, for to my
knowledge I suffered no mental,
or physical disorder,

I am making my letter as brief
as possible without omittting im-
portant details, for I do not wish
to occupy more than the allotted
amount of space allowed for read-
ers’ letters. I do not present fie-
titious stories as facts. I am plac-
ing the facts before you and the
readers; you may accept them, or
you may reject them as you wish,
and you still have my best wishes.
I invite correspondence from sin-
cere Truthseekers, and would like
to hear from those that have had
similar experience. In conclusion,
I extend my kindest thoughts to
all, and my best wishes to you,
and your publication for a brilliant
future.

> Sincerely,

(Ven Alexander MacDowell)
Representative Burma Buddhist
World Mission
76 Poplar St.
Newburgh, N. Y.
*

Dear Ray:

Reading the very significant lit-
tle item in April Mystic re the
predicted climax year of 1953, I
am impelled to explain to Mystic
readers the meaning of that epochal
date and what did happen then.

As Mystic pointed out, it mark-
ed the end of the 3rd 666 yr. cycle
since inauguration of the Julian
calendar, 46 B. C., and the 2nd 666
yr. cycle of the Mohammedan era,
and the 6666th year of the ‘Julian
period’. Incidentally it was also the
Delaware led the

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4 cycles since the
Sennacherib’s host besieging Jeru-
salem. s

The reason most oecultists ex-
pected a great historical climax in
1953 was quite different. It. was
because the internal gallery and
chamber measurements of the
Great Pyramid of Cheops, repre-
senting world history at a rate of
one inch per year, terminate with
the open sarcophagus, at 1953.
This was meant as a symbol of the
great resurrection of the dead be-
fore the day of judgment.

The truth is that the year 1953
A.D. did fulfill its high signifi-
cance, To understand what this
was one must study the number
1953 itself, and the signs and pro-
phecies given in the Bible concern-
ing the end of time' of the Chris-
tian era.

After Christ's resurrection his
chief miracle was the draught of
the 153 great fishes from Lake
Galilee, in Peter’s net, only a few
days before the Lord ascended to
the devachanic plane, bodily: 153
had long been recognized as a great
mystical number. It is the kab-
balism (pyramiding) of 17, the
prime that signifies ‘grace’, our
universal assurance of eventual re-
union with our Father. The pyr-
amiding implies a realization of the
principle (or prime) thus expand-
ed.

In the case of the prime 17 its
kabbalism is also exactly 9x17.
Nine is the number of ‘sonship’. 153
then equals the ‘sons of grace’, or,
in other words, those
from the long school of reincarna-

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ye call it ‘the number of the elect’
(or elite).

It is also symbolic of the Trin-
ty, 1 of the Father, 5 of the Son,
and 8 of the Spirit. These are the
points of Neptune’s trident, by
which he rules the fishes. Fishes
Symbolize all souls in the spiritual
(water). In 1953 there. were
drawn up on the spirit planes the
fi nal battle lines for the greatest
ict in all this planet’s millions
years of inhabited history, the
show-down between the forces of
ight and darkness that will end
Some 70 years later at the Battle
of Armageddon in Palestine. 1953
was the deadline for deciding one’s
allegiance on the spiritual plane,
The great division generally follow-
ed lines of allegiance in the last
World civilization’s final conflict,
my genie says. That was presum-
ably on Atlantis.

Chronology’s basic cycle is 360
| years. Five cycles of the Christian
era brought us to 1800, and 1953
Was- the year 153 of the 6th cycle.
6 is the number of decision, the
problem of the virgin, 6th sign of
the Zodiac. 153 posits at 3 degrees
of Virgo. Next year, 1956, at 6
degrees of Virgo, will mark the
entry into the final 66 yr. period
called the ‘golden age’, or tribula-
tion’, the furnace that refines the
gold of human nature from its
present dark ore, in preparation
for the Sabbath Millenium of Rest.
Hoy marvelous is the pattern of
cChronology!
Curtis L. Gibson
218 E. Zist St.

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Dear Ray Palmer:

- THE SEANCE CIRCLE
to bring up for dispute one or two.

New York 16, N. Y.

ZW

101

points mentioned in the February
issue of MYSTIC. ' The first has
to do with the phenomenon known
as astral projection. The second
concerns the question of whether
or not. mankind is at the mercy of
supernormal creatures living be-
neath the surface of our earth.

Before going further, I would
like to point out that knowledge,
to be worthy of consideration, must
be susceptible to the following. It
must be susceptible to PROOF
it must be CONSISTENT with
what others have found to be so—
it must be DEMONSTRABLE un-
der any condition—and, it must be
USEFUL.

Much of our present day knowl-
edge in the field of occultism
comes up to these expectations.
Through these standards re- incar-
nation has become a proven fact.
Thousands of persons, utterly un-
interested in occultism and in
many cases utterly out of sympathy
with it, have suddenly and with-
out warning remembered past in-
carnations or incidents from them,
Also, telepathy and clairvoyance
have become established facts be-
cause they have been tested by
these standards. All of our scientific
knowledge is measured by them.
With these standards in mind let
us now proceed.

Dr. W. D. Chesney, M.D. states
in his article on DEVIL WOR-
SHIP that astral projection is dan-
gerous and should not be attempt-
ed by amateurs. I’m taking issue
with that. Further, I say that Dr.
Chesney’s statements are proof of

I

his ignorance of the true laws.

and principles involved in projec-

tion. I will go even further and say

x

ing able to walk, talk,

MYSTIC

that he has never experienced pro-
jection, and that anyone who
agrees with him has never experi-
enced projection. How do I know?
I know because I HAVE experi-
enced projection, Further, my ex-
periences are consistent with the
experiences of others. Further, I
care demonstrated to others my
ability to project. And last, my
ability is useful to me, that is, I
am not limited to certain conditions,
but can use my ability at will.
Projection, Mr. Palmer, is à nat-
ural ability, just as natural as be-
see, and
hear, and everybody does it, But
because it is a subjective experi-
ence, not everybody can consciously
experience it, because not everybody

can cross the threshold between ob-

jective consciousness and subjec-
tive consciousness, This is an
ability which requires some time
and much practice of certain
psychic and mental exercises to ac-
quire. I would dissuade the ama-
teur from attempting projection for
one reason only. Unless he always
knows the principles involved he
will not be successful, and he will
never know the laws and principles
involved unless he places himself
under the direction of those who
already know and have mastered
the principles. Some persons mas-
tered these principles in a previous
incarnation and so retain the abil-
‘ity to project even though they
have no training or instruction in
this one.

99 would like, while writing this
letter, to clear up the gross super-
stitious idea ‘that another soul can

take over one physical bod while
a BAR It is beyond

is Wie, g
eE a . how such

Tp } } m

idea ever came into existence, All
I can say for it is that it is an ex-
ample of the many stupid and silly
misunderstandings which untrain-
ed and incompetent dabblers in oc-
cultism have advanced. And there
is absolutely no reason or founda-
tion for it. The truth of the mat-
ter is that the soul does NOT leave
the body during projection. Pro-
jection is nothing more than the
extension of consciousness out of
the physical body into space. The
only time one’s “soul” leaves the
body is when one dies, which is
why one dies. And not even a
“disembodied soul entity” can take
over your body for the simple rea-
son that during projection YOU
DO NOT LEAVE IT.

Another utterly false misconcep-
tion is that projection can, be used
for evil or immoral purposes, It
is a fact that a very few of those
who know the laws involved have
tried it in spite of warnings, and
what happened to them? Did they
succeed? The answer is NO. They
succeeded only in driving them-
selves mad, and ending their days
either in an insane asylum or by
suicide. The psychic faculties of
man can not be used for evil pur-
poses, and to even attempt to so
use them will bring swift and just.
retribution upon one’s own head,
for these faculties will boomerang
truer than anything else we can
conceive. So much for Bata a
black magic, and proj UETA

Mr. Richard Shaver cin to
have discovered an underground
race whose purpose seems to be

the harrassment and perhaps the
1 of the human race. Un-

755 „
ka ap sony" eee

THE SEANCE CIRCLE

Shaver, but may I ask a question?
If, for thousands of years, certain
Masters and other highly develop-
ed persons have been exercising
their psychic faculties, why has
such a race been only now discov-
ered? The facts, as I understand
them, are far different from Mr.
Shaver’s. I am aware that sur-
viving descendants of the Lemu-
rian race are still in existence but
I am not aware of any malignancy
on their part, nor am I aware of
such a race of beings as Mr. Shav-
er describes,

Mr. Shaver’s revelations do not
measure up to the standards set
forth at the beginning of this let-
ter. He has no proof. His conten-
tions are not consistent with those
of others, He cannot demonstrate
anything, and the knowledge, if
true, is useless.

I suppose, at this time, you are
wondering what my credentials are
that I should speak so authorita-
tively. My credentials, Mr. Palm-
er, are years of study, experience,
and application of what I have
learned. I can say no more than
that.

Before I close this letter I would
like to make a suggestion. I no-
tice that your magazine carries ad-
vertisements of several schools of
occultism, mysticism, and yoga. Ac-
cording to their advertisements
each is an authority, each knows
what, supposedly, the rest of the
world does not know. Why not
investigate these various organiza-
tions and schools of mystic wisdom
and perhaps write an article on
one or two of them. Particularly in-
teresting would be an artiele on
the several secret inystical socie-
ties. However, if yon do, be sure

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103

to take your facts from the source
for popular books on them are not
reliable and are often very mis-
leading.

I think this covers about all I
have to say, except that I would
like at this time to wish MYSTIC
every possible success. It is unusu-
al in this day and age to find
something which does not have an
ISM attached to it, and it seems
to me, the less ISMs we have the
better. I hope that you will
print this letter whether you favor
my opinions or not, and at least
give the reading public a chance
to compare the facts revealed here-
in with whatever possible experi-
ences they may have had.

Yours very truly,

William Broderick

23 Gradwell Drive

Toronto 13, Ont., Can.

P. S. In reading over my letter I

find that I have unintentionally

created a general atmosphere of

intolerance for what I conceive to

be the wrong opinions or mistakes

of others, especially Dr. Chesney

and Mr. Shaver. While I cannot

retract what I have said, I do

apologize for the rough manner in

which I have said it and hope that

these two gentlemen will forgive
me.

If stating one’s convictions is
roughness, let’s have the roughness!
We certainly wish we could dem-
onstrate for our readers! Now, if
we had universal TV, we might put
you on, demonstrating astral pro-
jection. You might project your

consciousness to some point where
what you observe could be checked,
and then, upon returning your con-
sciousness to your body, you could
“prove your projection. But maybe i

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104 MYSTIC
we can actually perform such an the answer to be because it didn’t
experiment? Can you suggest a exist. Is that fair? Just because

means? Like picking a neutral ob-
server, you project to him, then
both report, independently, to me,
and I report to the readers? Seems
there ought to be some way to do
this demonstrating to the satisfac-
tion of all. Maybe it’s a good thing
your editor can’t project, he'd be
steering toward Jane Russell in her
bath—and, oh yes, you say hed fail
then. Well, no use trying that, is
there? Trouble is, your editor
sometimes has trouble telling
what's moral and what isn’t. Take
two beautiful things, as an exam-
ple—a sunset and Jane Russell.
If our purpose is to admire their
beauty, what makes the sunset okay,
and Jane Russell immoral? Or
would it really work, if our intent
was just admiration, honest and
eet? But let’s get back to
Shaver—. Personally, after years
of study, I found plenty of proof.
Enough to convince me beyond all
possible doubt. Not that I agree
with Shaver's interpretation, but I
have my own, and it agrees with
his story in all essentials. And he
certainly can demonstrate—at least
as well as you can. He's passed
many of the sort of tests I men-
tioned before. About why such a
race (underground) hasn’t been
discovered before, it has. Legends
about them are thousands of years
old. However, using your logic, let’s
paraphrase, and ask a similar

gators have been sailing the seas,
why was America i
in 1492? When you asked that

a thing hasn’t yet been discovered,
it doesn’t exist.

At this point, it occurs to us that
this “letter” section is the longest
and most involved ever to be pub-
lished in a magazine. It shatters
all precedent. It just “isn’t done.”
It hasn’t been done. Maybe it
shouldn’t be done. What about it?
Are we publishing too much of this
sort of thing? Is it worthwhile?
Is it what you want? Do you care
to carry on this kind of discussion?
Should the editor stick to tradi-
tion and keep his nose out of the
whole thing, and merely print the
letters, except for a few “stuffy”
platitudes? Or should he adopt
a “neutral” attitude and practice
“the customer is always right” tac-
tics? Maybe he should do like we
used to do back in our pulp days,
and print only laudatory letters
saying “Mystic is great, Mystic is
fine, hurrah, hurrah,” and leave
cut any criticism? Actually, we
get an incredible flood of mail.
Some of the letters are thousands
of words long! We couldn’t begin
to publish 1% of the letters we re-
ceive and it hurts our conscience,
because so many have good points,

letter into the “reject” pile, we
feel like a criminal! It’s tough!
But to limit the whole thing to a

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Dear Ray:

May one horn in again? First it `

is a pleasure to know one editor
who has the intestinal fortitude to
tell the facts—and damn the tor-
pedos. I am speaking specifically
about the turning of the people
into Guinea pigs—willfully, delib-
erately and feloniously. And, in
the name of God, I denounce the
calculated risks to which we have
been, are being, will be subjected.

This refers not only to the atom
bomb, but to the use of atom re-
actors. And I refer, likewise, to
experiments on human beings by
so-called, but falsely so-called
‘wonder’ and ‘miracle’ drugs. We
now go into the matter specifically:

The damage to future genera-
tions has already been done by
these dastardly tests in Nevada and
elsewhere. Already the AEC has
announced that shortly the whole
oceans will not be large enough
to contain radioactive wastes.
Furthermore, one of the principal
geneticists, Sutherland, has stated
IN PRINT that the last H-bomb
explosion has made 70 mutations
in the genes—the cells that con-
trol, or govern fertility.

And for the love of God and hu-
manity, how many Americans have
expressed an opinion to their hired
and darn well paid representatives
in Congress? One hundred dollars
to one cent not 1/1000 of 1 per
cent have written. The case IS
hopeless already as far as the
coming generations are concerned..

This morning Tribune states
that nurses and laymen are to be
trained in intravenous infusions, or
transfusions, in case of atomic
warfare. What, in the name of God,

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are they going to use? Already
and RIGHT NOW the waters of
the Great Lakes are radioactive.
And they become increasingly so
day after day. AND THERE IS
NO WAY KNOWN AND THERE
NEVER WILL BE ANY WAY
KNOWN TO
REMEDY THE SITUATION. The
blood of every citizen on earth is
already radio-active. The blood of
every living mammal is radioactive.
Again, what is going to be used to
replace the normal and natural
blood?

And, Ray, any man that denies
in the least any one single state-
ment made here is a LIAR AND
THE TRUTH IS NOT IN HIM.
Why doesn’t the AEC tell the
facts that radioactivity is cumula-
tive and lasts for centuries? This
man Strauss, who now heads the
AEC knows, not a whit about atom
fission or fusion. He is as fitted
for that job as he is to meet his
God and answer for the lives now
being destroyed as he gets the
headlines. God help the world!

Ever since I became a medical
apprentice some 60 years ago, in-
souciant pharmaceutical . houses
have been forcing ‘wonder’ drugs
down the throats of the people.
These ‘blunder’, ‘wonder’ that is,
drugs were to wipe disease from
the face of the earth. Yet every
day cancer hypertensive sequelae,
diabetes, heart diseases and a host
of other killers, not to speak about
these new virus diseases (unques-
tionably developed by the use of
‘wonder’ drugs) are increasing at
supersonic rate. Every generation
brought forth another ‘mess’ of
these ‘miracle’ drugs, Where are
they today? TEF

NEUTRALIZE OR

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Great God, can’t the people break
away from the bridge game, or
the television, long enough to ask
themselves, WHITHER AND
HOW SOON? Don’t the people
read their papers? Can’t they real-
ize that the army no longer uses
transfusions because the donated
blood, or plasm, was spreading
metastatic cancer, hepatitis, ma-
laria, ete.? Didn't they read that
all of the Army Red Cross blood
collecting stations were being dis-
continued?

Just a few years ago medical
bosh stated that gamma globulin
was the answer to polio, What
now? A new vaccine for poliomy-
elitis—infantile paralysis. Ray!
Ray, I was on the road for years
as salesman and detail representa-
tive for houses putting out vac-
eines, sero-bacterins, serums, phy-
lacogens and like junk that main-
ly benefitted the bank accounts of
large stockholders in the houses
mentioned, Where is Coley’s toxin
today, and Aleresta Ipecac, and
Furunculosis, Acne, Colon, and a
hundred other vaccines and sera?
Where is the Gamma globulin that
was. to put an end to polio? How
much did the hog packing company
that had the job of processing hu-
man blood, make out of this deal?

The new vaccine for polio? I do
most earnestly pray that it is as
successful as predicated, But is it?
What effect will it have on those
that get it, in the ensuing years?
And what is polio, anyway? There
are some authorities, and mighty
brilliant ones, that claim that most

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sapienti.” What will make this hu-
man race THINK?

Probably the greatest, wisest
epigram ever enunciated was—
“QUEM VULT PERDERE DEUS,
PRIUS DEMENTAT.”

The leaders in politics and lit-
erature and science have gone
stark insane. No wonder Paul
wrote to Timothy condemning “dis-
putations of science falsely 80
called.“ In your excellent editorial
—June issue—you point out that
mart does not develop spiritually.
That he accepts HATE instead of
LOVE. RIGHT! And your “DES-
PERATELY YOURS” was a
masterpiece.

And now to page 114 which con-
cerns the mediumship of Margery.
Mr. Rasch brings out some very
interesting points. As to the Pro-
bert matter I know nothing. I do
not venture an oinion. But, about
the proof of human survival
brought out in the Margery mani-
festations, I do know plenty. Now,
Mr. Rasch, your comments show
that you are seeking the truth.
Aren't we all? First, regarding
Dr. Dingwall. If you will carefully
read the Pro. A.S.P.R. you will
find that certain members of the
committee were so unfriendly to
Spiritualism, they were not cap-
able of giving an unbiased, honest
opinion. You will note that the
man, Houdini, was excoriated for
his chicanery. (I'll give you page
and verse, if required). The con-
duct on the part of Wood was a
disgrace to the honor of the hu-
man race. You can also find that
in Pro. A.S\P.R. I make the un-
qualified statement that his con-
duet was the most dishonorable
record in the history of Psychie Re-

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search,
I declare unconditionally that if

there were false prints found, it

was a case of the good, old ‘switch-
eroo’, And, Bro. Rasch, if you will
just read the Pro. A. S. P. R. and
note the dishonorable conduct of
Houdini and Wood, you will under-
stand what I mean. Now then, get
Pro. A. S. P. R, 1926-1927, Vol 2.
Turn with me to page 840. Let us
read together the last sentence:-

“The facts here chronicled eon-

stitute conclusive proof of the ex-
istence of Margery’s supernormal
faculties, and the strongest sort of
evidence that these work through
the agency of her deceased brother

Walter.“ I was in Boston much of
the years 1926-27 putting over my
infra red line to the medical pro-
fession. And I state with all the
earnestness I can muster, that Mar-
gery was never exposed. That Hou-
dini even pushed pieces of chewed
up pencil erasers under the switch
to try to disqualify Margery.

I state with equal positiveness
that THERE IS NO WAY IN
HEAVEN OR EARTH FOR ANY
PERSON TO SWALLOW WHOLE

BOLTS OF CLOTH AND CAUSE
IT TO EXTRUDE FROM EARS,

| NOSE, NIPPLES AND VAGINA,
AS IT DID IN THE MEDIUM-
| SHIP OF MARGERY. And I urge
| you and every truth seeker to con-
| sult the Margery mediumship as
published in Pro. ASPR and see
the actual flashlight photos. And
finally, truth seekers, let me quote
verbatim from a letter written by
Dr. Tillyard to Sir Oliver Lodge:
“It seems to me quite impossible
to find a single flaw in this won-
derful result. But it is my object

—

to record scientifically that they

do occur, that they are part of
the phenomena of Nature, And
that Science, which is the search
for Truth and for Knowledge,
can only ignore them at the deadly
peril of its own existence, as a
guiding force for the world. This
seance is, for me, the culminating
point of all my psychical research.
I ean only ask that you and your
family will accept my statement
as absolute truth, knowing me as
you do

Ray, we did ATTEMPT to give
the facts. We actually did give the
facts. And the mediumship of Mar-
gery was true and unadulterated
with any form of fraud as far as
she and her husband were con-
cerned. The frauds were pure and
simple the work of several of the
investigators. You see, all the great
Spiritualistic phenomena were
proved by actual photographs and
this was true of the Margery me-
diumship.

But, III say this: if we don’t
put a stop to this atomic murder,
we're all soon going to be talking
with her face to face. I have ex-
amined some aborted lambs lately
—ALL RADIOACTIVE.

W. D. Chesney, M.D.
Milton Junction, Wise.
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Dear Mr. Palmer:

Having nothing better to do in
this god-forsaken place, I couldn't
resist commenting upon your men-
tion in “The Seance Circle” to the
planet so-called “Clarion”, in Mys-
tio.

What amuses me, more then
amazes me, is that it is located he}
on the other side of the sun,

(2) on the other side of the moon.
This of course, could be anywhere

nere the progenitors
ve probably wouldn’t know what we
Were talking about

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in the universe to be on (ie safe
‘side, but to one who is basically
familiar with oure own solar sys-
tem, it would have to be within
our solar system.

It is obvious that the individuals
in question who have placed this
mythical place somewhere out in

space have not acquainted them-

selves with any facts beforehand,
but perhaps this isn’t necessary if
you are making up fairy tales. The
Sun, as I understand it, is the cent-
er of our solar system, and the

- Earth together with its moon, and

eight sister planets revolve about
the sun, which in turn is traveling
through space at a tremendous

In the course of our revolution
about the Sun, we surely would
have met Clarion somewhere on
the other side of it, when we hap-
pened to be there, and insofar as
the moon is concerned, this poor
lifeless, airless sphere which is
chained gravitationally to the
“Planet of Painful Endeavor” (and
of Clarion

(maybe I

don’t either .. comment not for

print), we’d have spotted Clarion

somewhere between Earth and
Mars, the third and fourth planets
from the sun respectively. (I still

think we’d stand a better chance

of finding Vulcan between Mercury
and the sun). I guess its just the
little planet that wasn’t there!
i More specifically, Sir, why do
ae print that stuff? Tongue in
k, or otherwise, as an ordin-
individual of mediocre intel-
leet, I consider it on insult to my
intelligence, sub-standard or other-
wise! And it

certainly reveals the

`

calibre of the individuals who “un-
earth” such tales for the consump-
tion of John Q. Public. i

Material like this with regard
in particular to the saucers about
which I have an interest, and like
to read about, is responsible for
people of science and responsible
individuals turning their backs to
the subject in general, and just
supposing in time, that people from
other planets in or out of our own
solar system do make themselves
known to us (and I don’t particu-
larly want them to either)
won’t we look like a bunch of fools?
Here for years the saucers have
been seen here and there, and peo-
ple with any intelligence at all
deny their existence.

Oh well, thanks for listening

Mrs. Ruth Yerks

% CWO William F. Yerks
W-907071 Sve. Co., 22D Inf.,
APO 39, U. S. Army

New York, New York

P. S. I rather liked your “Edi-
torial” in the April edition of
Mystic.

Of course, Mrs. Yerks, our point
exactly. This places Clarion in the
some position as Shaver’s dero
and caves. But it doesn’t prove
that those who talk of Clarion
aren't being truthful, only mistak-
en in their interpretation of what
is happening to them. Where do
your very true and very scientific
arguments go, if we interpret
Clarion as being in another dimen-
sion, or one of the worlds of the
dead? Then it could be behind the
city hall, for all we'd be able to
detect it with œ telescope. Wat
we're trying to do is bring all
these things out into the open and

find out WHY. Why are œ lot of

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people claiming rides on Clarion
space ships? Curiosity (which is
the search for knowledge and truth)
cannot be selective. Rap.

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Dear Mr. Palmer:

The other day some friends and
I were discussing various subjects
when the flying saucer mystery
came up. One of the fellows start-
ed the ball rolling by saying though
there are seemingly honest reports
of saucers landing to have their
alien occupants alight briefly, al-
ways does this occur in unpopulat-
ed areas of the Earth, with eye-
witnesses few in number. Why, he
wanted to know, doesn’t a flying
saucer descend on the White House
lawn in broad daylight, ask for
global communication facilities, and
give mankind vital, significant
messages, if such exist?

Well, I happened to have read
both disk books written by Daniel-
W. Fry, who claims to have com-
municated with an extra-terres-
trial. This very question was asked
by Fry. He was told such a land-
ing would prove-unsuccessful. First,
there is the psychological angle.

If aliens appeared as members
of a superior race to lead. Earth-
ians, about 30% would look upon
them as Gods, placing on them all
responsibility for their own wel-
fare. Most of the remaining 70%
would regard the aliens as poten-
tial tyrants who were planning
Earth’s slavery. The immediate
goal of these 70 percenters would
be the aliens’ utter annihilation.

Humans, it was carefully pointed
out, must be lead by human leaders.

Immediately upon landing on the
White House lawn, the aliens would

be surrounded and taken in charge

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by military forces whose duty it.
is to protect the heads of their
government from any possible
danger. The aliens would be ques-
tioned for hours, perhaps days, be-
fore any request of theirs would
even be given consideration, They
would be forced to demonstrate
their scientific superiority, after
which the military leaders would
inevitably say it was imperative
that their country acquire and
“protect” this advanced scientific
knowledge. Today, the attitude of
all progressive Earth governments
is that all new knowledge, particu-
larly scientific, is the property of
the state. ‘

Among other things, Fry asked:
if the aliens gave the U. S. their
highly advanced technical know-
ledge, wouldn’t that tend to pre-
vent the outbreak of another major
war? The extra-terrestrial dis-
agreed, explaining that a landing
in the U. S. would have the gov-
ernment attempting to keep it a
secret. But in this it would not
succeed. No more than it succeeded
in keeping the secret of its nuclear
weapons. For when Russia learned
what was going on, they would
believe that their only hope of
avoiding complete U. S. domina-
tion would be to launch an imme-
diate attack. A simultaneous land-
ing in both countries would only
intensify. the existing race for
armaments. Eventual result—
HOLOCAUST! p

Now, Mr. Palmer, what is the
editorial comment? ‘

Alex Saunders

34 Hillsdale Ave., W.,

' Toronto 12, Ontario,

I remember one day when an

Army Intelligence colonel. told me

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I had flown over a military estab-
lishment in a yellow plane, had
been fired upon, but had escaped,
but now they had me, and they had
the goods on me, in the form of the
actual negative from the camera
with which I had taken the pio-
ture. (It was a picture of Hia-
watha Falls, in your own country,
and I took it from my red Buick,
actually.) But remembering how
the Army fooléd around for a week,
making these stupid claims (no,
they were lies, because they knew
the photo wasn’t of a military in-
stallation all the time), when it
would have dumped their whole
case in the junkyard in ten min-
utes had they a print of the neg-
ative in question. I can well under-
stand how Fry is right. Yes, if a
saucer landed on the White House
Lawn, I'm sure we would see the
all-time record for stupid behavior.
You'd have the thing so “classi-
fied” it would be filed under the
27th ‘letter of the alphabet! The
only question a general could think
of asking a space visitor would be
“what kind of weapons have yon,
and how do they work?” and then
he wouldn’t believe he wasn’t hold-
ing back the REAL weapon when
he was told. Don’t ask me such
silly questions, Alex. I get awful
rate every time I think of the
brass. I’m not a fair recipient of
such questions, because I’m so pre-
judiced I get downright insulting
whenever I try to spell the word
colon-el.— Rap.
* * *

Dear Ray Palmer:

It is possible you may recall my
name as that of a science-fiction
writer back in the 1920’s and 1930s.
I have been a reader of MYSTIC

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and FATE ever since they first
appeared. The purpose of this let-
ter, however, is to express my
opinion of such writers to the
Seance Circle as David Stevens,
in your April number.

Doesn't he realize that the mind
ean adventure anywhere? To his
orthodox mind OAHSPE (about
which, by the way, I knew nothing
until I read the article in MYS-
TIC) is untrue because it isn’t
well-known “inspired” scripture,

You never state any of your
artieles as whole truth and nothing
but the truth. Naturally you expect
your readers to exercise some de-
gree of selectivity. If I don’t swal-
low every word, hook, line and
sinker, I feel no resentment, as so
many of your readers seem to do,
that something is being foisted.on
them, and they are eternally sus-
picious of being “taken in“. Natur-
ally you can’t prove or disprove
every word you print.

Where is their spirit of mental
adventure if they won’t try intell-
igently to sift the wheat from the
chaff in all they read? Often I
find later, myself, that I have dis-
carded some wheat, and am glad
to go back after it! Why this fear
of distrust of their own mental
discrimination? Don’t they enjoy
exercising it? I do, and a lot of
other people I know do too.

Personally, for instance, I don’t
now believe in the planet Clarion,
but my mind is held in abeyance.
It might be true. I feel no person-
al affront because some do. I’m
just waiting for more evidence
either way.

I am a member of the Philo-

sophieal Research pitta and
naturally I dislike anything that

savors of hide-bound orthodoxy. I
try to maintain the Golden Mean
between a closed mind and gulli-
bility. It is in the exercise of men-
tal ingenuity within the range of
the Golden Mean that the pleasure
of mental adventure is experienced.
Take that away, and your readers
would believe everything or noth-
ing. What a sad plight! The major-
ity of your readers fortunately fall
into neither of these extreme clas-
ses, but like myself, expect to open
up each issue of MYSTIC in the
spirit of adventure; that maybe a
new facet of truth will be revealed
to them; If not this time, then the
next! Little by little we learn. I
like MYSTIC. You can’t affront
me!
(Mrs.) Clare Winger Harris
P. O. Box 96-M,

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Dear Mr. Palmer:

I just received my “Mystic” for
April and simply MUST clarify
my statement that “no one is do-
ing anything about the basic teach-
ings of all religions that “we love
one another”, a careless statement
indeed and not meant in that sense
at all. My most humble apologies
to the many many good and kind
souls who are spending their lives
in this world doing good and loving
people (some of whom are hard to
understand) for the love of God
and for obedience to His Will.

I am a member of the Bahai
Faith which teaches that in every
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Reincarnation—This simply means
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specie. Nothing more and nothing
less.

Mankind—This word tells about
the sort of life to be found on this
planet called: Man, Men, Min, N,
Amen, Amun, Aten, Adam.

The Temple of the Baha’i—This
structure has one meaning only
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people of this globe that we are
all descendants of space voyagers
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when all is ready. You will notice
that the building looks like a space-
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Ghosts, spirits, poltergeists,
phantoms are one and the same.
They are human beings of a high
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to limit the evil of all the earthly
races.

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Dear Mr. Palmer:

I started reading MYSTIC when
you first came out, I always
looked forward to it as I do FATE,
but the last few issues have been
nothing but TRASH. Throughout
the magazine I find that you con-
tradict yourself and print articles
which you yourself don’t believe.
I’m not condemning MYSTIC en-
tirely, as you do publish some very

articles, but it is no wonder
FATE outshines you. Even you
admit in your editorials that you
print what FATE rejects.

In this issue are two articles
which are definitely true, but which
should not have been published for
obvious reasons, They are the two
concerning devil worshippers.
These, like any other magazine,
TV, movies, influence people.

William Barelay
Gettysburg, Penna.

How many of our readers want
the editor to print only what HE
believes? How many want their
MYSTIC to contain filtered ma-
terial, and anything contrary to
what Palmer believes to be sum-
marily rejected? We print articles
rejected by FATE, because FATE
is dedicated to publishing only
“documentary” material. It strives
to print only what can, as far as
is possible, be proved. When it
can’t, it adopts a neutral view-
point, or carefully points out that
the article lacks proof. MYSTIC
will print a theory. FATE will
not. MYSTIC is intended to round
out the field filled by FATE, 80
that the two magazines form a
complete coverage of the subject of
the psychic.

The worst thing in the world, to
our way of thinking, is “shielding”

THE SEANCE CIRCLE 117
anyone from anything. If the devil

worship article influences anyone,
; it will influence them. But we

cannot reject an article because it
~ may result in forming someone’s
opinion. That is why MYSTIC gives
all types of material, to the ex-
clusion of nothing; people have
to make up their own minds, and
they must not be misled, denied
their right to make their own deci-
sion, by cheating them out of some of
the evidence, by screening the
items.

Certainly your editor doesn’t be-
lieve half the stuff he prints! He's
had æ lot of experience, and form-
ed a lot of opinions, and he keeps
changing them every day, as new
evidence presents itself. He is wild-
ly happy when something comes
up that revises his thinking, by
presenting a powerful argument,
and he’d be completely miffed if
someone had presumed to “shield”
him from that argument.

Dear Editor:

The article on Harry Houdini
left me confused. According to Dr.
Chesney, Beatrice Houdini received
the message from her departed
husband, through Rev. Ford. The
article in TRUE by Mr. William
Lindsey Geesham, on the condensed
book of Harry Houdini, says that
no such message was received by
Houdini’s wife.

Jerry Penniher
539 Roseville Ave
Newark 7, N. J.

Mrs. Houdini issued a sworn,
signed statement that she did re-
ceive the message and that it
was authentic. Later she denied that
the message had been paasei

i
g

bidding creatures of human statue
—others pudgy little people with —

ment was untrue. You take it from
there. When TRUE says no mes-
sage was received, it is presuming.
All that can be said is that Mrs.
Houdini lied, one way or the other.
Which way? Darned if we knowl

Dear Mr. Palmer:

I have just finished reading Mr.
Shaver’s article on “the cave
people” and I hasten to add my
little word to this amazing, yet
profoundly important subject.

Strange as it seems, less than

a month ago while attempting to

make another psychic contact with
the Planet Venus as I did fifteen
years ago (as told in my recent
book—MY FLIGHT TO VENUS)
I came in contact with these hor-
rible creatures Mr. Shaver talks

about, and learned something of

the role they play in our human
drama, They were not lovely to
look upon—some were grim, for-

bulging eyes, flattened nostrils
and ugly mouth frog people,” I
called them. I learned too there are
places on our globe where voleanie
fires have seared deep into the
earth, that lead imto grottos of
murk and darkness. The only vis-
ible light emanates from the Sa-
tanic fires, the purpose of which is
to create poisonous vapors. It is
these poisonous vapors let loose from
these unholy grottoes and picked up
by the people of earth, that causes
much of our misery and woe.

I quote from the tape recording
of this psychic experience; “Ex-
cept for this red flame it is black

. night here. It is from

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These must be blocked up and puri-
fied before the New Age transi-
tion can come. The saucer people
and other-planetary beings are
here more to absorb and purify
these evil influences than they are
to impress us. In time this under-
world of evil would completely de-
stroy us if it were not checked.”
This is not the report of a vis-

ionary, but an experience in “true
vision.” In the light of that ex-
perience I disagree with Mr. Shav-
er’s viewpoint that the saucer
people would be destroyed by these
unholy ones were they to try to
help us. From my own experience
on Venus fifteen years ago, I know
that they have the ability to change
conditions without bloodshed. In
my recent experience I learned
there are literally thousands of
them just beyond our unreachable
limits busily engaged in building
a new world in space. I was shown
a closeup of the flooring that is
being put down as “foundation.”
While it is created out of etheric
substances it has a tensile strength
greater than our iron-clad earth.
Cities will eventually be built here
and when this present cycle draws
to a close many earth beings will
be transported to this Utopia in
the sky. At the same time these
unhappy creatures from below will
have been purified sufficiently so
they can step out of their grottos
of darkness and see the light of
the earth’s day.

Dana Howard

P. O. Box 68

Palm Springs, Cal.

You psychic researchers, just

where does this letter fit in your
thinking? Interesting, isn’t it? But
would you have us “decide” 10 i

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shouldn't read it, and toss it into
the waste basket? Of course not.
And likewise, publishing it doesn’t
mean endorse it. We just don't konw.
And we certainly respect Dana How-
ard as an individual with the right
to speak. Does this confirm Shaver?
Does it confirm Oahspe? Does it
confirm the Society for Psychic Re-
search? Does it confirm all three?
Does it fit another link into. your
own private theory?

Dear Editor:

I have found a real “lonest-to-
goodness” Witchcraft word. It
doesn’t matter where or how I found
it, and I am sending it on to our
readers, The word is hemlock, and it
is the word for sleep.

If you have insomnia just lie down
on your bed and say “hemlock” three
or four times, and you will have no
trouble going to sleep. It gives you
the very same feeling you experi-
ence when you swallow a sleeping
tablet-only more so. You become
light as a cloud, and just drift away
into sleep.

Sometimes if I say the word
nine or ten times—though I don’t
guarantee this will work with every-
one (it doesn’t with mother it just
puts her to sleep) it will create
weird mental pictures, before fall-
ing asleep, all of woodland scenes;
gloomy paths over-grown with moss,
waterfalls—some of them reaching
up, up as high as the moon—and
sunlight vistas reaching away into
infinite distances—beautiful almost
beyond imagination.

Then when I fall asleep—and this
seems to be true with everyone—I
have weird unusual dreams. Some-
times, frightening dreams.

I wish “Mystic” would publish

some witchcraft words or spells. If
any of our readers know any I wish
they would please send them to your
magazine, or to me, individually.
Witchcraft words mean power, and
I could use some power, if I pos-
sessed it.

I look forward eagerly to your
magazine, and wish it came out
every month!

Maude C. Parker
566 S. Water St.
Keyser, West Va.

Anything that will put me to
sleep would be worthwhile. We
haven't tried it yet, but maybe some
of our readers will, and report on
it. As for witchcraft words and
spells, we're afraid that’s something
we just don’t possess. We've seen
lots of them, but never tried to work
them. Can't see where they'd help,
personally. But we can understand
power. If you want it. .?

Hemlock has put some people into
a pretty deep sleep, we'll admit!

Dear Mr. Palmer:

As a trained psychiatrie social
worker with some nine years of ex-
perience interviewing the mentally
ill, I am interested in your maga-
zine from the viewpoint of abnormal
psychology. While I am not a sei-
entific conservative and I have ac-
cepted the findings in extra-sensory
perception at Duke University, I
draw the line at much of what you
publish, Nevertheless, I realize that
a periodical such as yours must
plore the boundries of thinking and
experience and, rather than going
over material verified by research,
may best serve to point the way
tovari new areas for research,

I do not think that this absolves

you from the RESPONSIBILITY of —

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learning for yourself a very great
deal about mental illness in order
to protect your readers. As you well
know, there are mentally ill people
who latch onto such experimental
stuff as you put out and use it to
prove their own delusional systems to
their own satisfactions if not to the
satisfaction of those who are trying
to help them back to an adequate
adjustment.

From this point of view, I have
long considered Richard Shaver one
of the most dangerous individuals
' in the United States from a mental
health viewpoint. Voices of “evil”
content, bedeviling, reviling voices
or voices which prompt the victim
to evil deeds are products of the
unconscious minds of those who hear
them. They represent the impulses
and opinions of the repressed, un-
acceptable part of the victim’s own
personality. Only by coming to un-
derstand these unacceptable impuls-
es and find acceptable outlets for
them, can the mentally ill person
find his way back to reality. Wheth-
er or not there is a universal or col-
lective unconscious mind is a matter
for further research, but it is cer-
tainly unhealthy not to recognize
these phenomena as being in the
mental sphere.

At the time when I first read
Richard Shaver’s material in
AMAZING STORIES, I wrote some-
thing to this effect to the magazine

they were so unethical as to

n my letter over to Shaver, who
wrote to me. I wish I had preserved
his very interesting letter, which
comprised a request that I tip him
off psychiatrically so that he could
avoid being taken for a schizophre-
nie. I referred him to a psychiatrist
in his area and challenged him to

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go in for an interview and that is
the last I heard from Mr. Shaver.

PIH continue with brief comments
on the other February articles. I
SAW AN OBEAH MAN WORK is
interesting. Such recollections as
well authenticated and verified as
possible are worthy of compilation
for study. It could also be just the
product of Mr. Hemming’s pen. Most
of the material I’m inclined to take
seriously does not spin itself out so
smoothly but exhibits glaring irrel-
evancies which spoil the literary
quality of the story.

Swedenborg’s Magic Mirror is the
more valuable for its little biblio-
graphy and these, I think, are im-
portant to the serious reader,

Having seen Mark Probert in per-
son in a trance in which he was
supposed to be invoking the spirits
of Lao Tze and other ancients, I
am thoroughly disillusioned as to
his abilities. I believe he does go
into a trance and may not remember
what he gives out, but its content
has been gleaned from library soure-
es. I noted that the strained arti-
ficial accents of these invoked spir-
its were all essentially the same and
not representing the speech of dif-
ferent individuals. This is Mark Pro-
bert himself talking, a guy with
knowledge by which we can profit,
if studied critically and in the light
of his research. I think these trance
states would not have become neces-
sary had he not found himself a
teacher with no students, a philoso-
pher with no audience. If he con-
tinues to encourage and exploit this
splitting of his personality, he is
very likely to wind up in a mental

put his own ideas across. But again
we are up against the possibility of
a collective unconscious (see Jung)
which may exist and whose bounda-
ries are poorly defined. It is yet to
be proven that the source of every
irrelevant thought that pops into
our minds is personal rather than
telepathic or that time and its men-
tal content is not an entity which
can be tapped past, present or fu-
ture at any given time, as Bergson
believes when he discusses THE
MIND AT LARGE or Aldous Hux-
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PERCEPTION”.

Since’ starting this letter, Ive
managed to get hold of an October
issue, so will comment. As far as I
am concerned, you can skip the fic-
tion. I’m interested in articles, es-
pecially backed up by a little re-
search. The exception would be the
story called THE HOLY MAN, It
is profound and I’m rather sur-
prised and pleased to find some good
psychiatric thinking in it. It has
taken the West a long time to find
out that objective reality is less im-
portant to people than the way they
FEEL about things and it is prac-
tically the first lesson in counseling.
I also want to say that your cover
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than the gaudy paintings on FATE.

This is getting to be quite a let-
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on the subjects you bring up. Really
everybody does once you get them
started on the strange, the unusual
and the unkown.

But at this point, I'm going to
change the subject entirely and say
that I go along with you all the way
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force. I don’t know how well you
and Dr. Chesney are actually in-
formed about these things, but on
the ethical side you are right and
everybody knows it. Ending war is
going to have to get right down to
the individual conscience. I am con-
vinced that the Average Russian is
no more warlike than the Average
American, Given a chance to vote
and not influenced by scare propa-
ganda, the people would say NO to
war everytime. But what happens?
They elect REPRESENTATIVES of
the people and hand those represen-
tatives their conscience—that is ex-
pect them to do what is best for
the group. Thus the individual con-
science is lost in the principal of
EXPEDIENCY. The leader no long-
er says “Killing is wrong” but “It is
my job to protect the people I repre-
sent“. The leader has to say “My
country right or wrong”. When we
add to this collective selfishness, the
disagreeable aspects of BIGNESS,
we are really in trouble. By this, I
mean, that the bigger and more com-
plicated a government becomes, the
more difficulty there is in getting
anything done, the more red tape
is involved in every decision and act
of communication. The bigger an
organization becomes, the more dif-
ficulty there is in keeping the lines
of communication clear so that any-
body can get anything done. You
read bulletins, you go to meetings,
you have conferences. and pretty
soon these avenues of communication
are cutting your actual working
time in half. A State Government
must be even more inefficient and
it is beyond me how the Federal
Government ever gets anything done
at all! No wonder the lawmakers get
panicky and authorize, wars instead

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of thinking things through!

All of this is leading up to say-
ing that I think you are doing the
right thing in taking the decision
right back to the people where it
belongs. If every American would
examine his own heart and consci-
ence and decide in the light of his
own eternal values whether the risk
to his own life was worth having
the sin of bombing the population
of some other country, the answers

Would make more sense. And if every
American could reach the point per-
sonally of saying “Let the other guy
make bombs. I'm going to bake
bread or build houses or even clean
up the streets and I object to hav-
ing the taxes I pay go into making
bullets”, then we'd be getting some-
where. And we couldn’t do it all
by ourselves either. Somehow the
people of this country would have
to reach out to the people of other
countries and develop understanding
and faith in one another’s intentions,
That’s a big order! But it’s all that
is going to save humanity from
blowing itself to bits so we've got
to try. (Name withheld)

I've done some studying about
mental illnesses. I was able to recog-
nize Mr. Shaver’s particular classi-
fication, and I believe I had great
success in placing him on an even
keel. Will it satisfy you to be as-
sured that Mr. Shaver will not sud-
denly become violent, when his theo-
ries are denied or crossed, and at-
tempt to kill the denier? Do you

123

when I accept a responsibility, I ac-
cept it after careful consideration
and study and an attempt to under-
stand what I am doing.

If Shaver was dangerous, the
danger failed to develop. Here, in-
deed, was a tremendous test of that
theory. 50,000 people went all the
way for his material. The resultant
danger was indiscernable, and in
fact, failed wholly to develop. Rath-
er, according to psychiatric stand-
ards, the mental health of many
was improved. We'll not discuss
methods of diagnosis and treat-
ment and results here, but I believe
you yourself would be highly satis-
fied with many case histories I
could demonstrate for you. These
voices which prompt evil doings are
there, even if you insist they are
from the subconscious. But they will
not be obeyed, if a counter-force is
set up to bring forward an instant
resistence to the suggestion. There
can be a lot of argument as to the
proper therapy in such cases, and
mine may be full of holes, but fire
is frequently fought with fire. I
could tell you a good many cases of
where it succeeded, and I believe
that paranoia can be rendered to-
tally harmless with the proper treat-
ment. Don’t the religions ‘ell us to
pray when tempted? Fight words
with words?

Mr. Shaver did not go to a psy-
chiatrist because he knew very well
what the diagnosis would be. Para-
noid. How do you know you weren't
exposing that psychiatrist to a very
great danger of his life! Well, Mr.
Shaver is not a paranoid. I doubt if
he ever was. Yet he wowld be- the

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does not construct @ deliberately
false picture for a practical purpose
such as making money. What Shav-
er presented was fiction, but it was
drawn from fact, and much research,
Everything he said was basically
true, philosophically so, but sugar-
coated to make it acceptable. He
wrote the greatest textbook on the
psychic that has been written in a
hundred years.

On Probert, I'd even say less than
you do. He interests me. And I want
to know more. And personally, he’s
quite amusing. As a fiction writer,
with’ a fetish for being “in charac-
ter”, he is intensely interesting. I
always reject a story in which d
character steps out of character. I
am interested in Mark because he
does step out of character! In quite
shocking ways to a person with my
training. It opens a field for re-
search.

Glad to know you found the Holy
Man story contained good psy-
chiatric thinking. It was written by
a “psychiatrist’s paranoid”. Maybe
it proves psychiatry doesn’t know
its paranoids too well as yet!

Do you realize that when you say
“let the other guy make the bombs,”
you are opening yourself to a rather
indefensible stand if Mr. McCarthy
should ever quote you out of con-
text (or within it for that matter)?
A: form of conscientious objecting.
And objecting to your taxes going
for bullets. What about your oath
of Gllegiance? Yes, this business of
“love thy neighbor” is a form of
treachery these days. If your neigh-
bor is c Communist!

Dear Ray:
e eee ee I have just tin-
ished reading Letters:

MYSTIC

dead and your answers in Mystic-
April issue. You have done very well
indeed with these answers—revealed
considerable wisdom, plenty of for-
bearance and patience. Some of these
letters would try the patience of a
holy saint to the breaking point!.
Said saint would duly deliver to the
writers a swift kick in the place
where it would do the most good!
If you ask me I would say they are
asking for many swift kicks and
they will not be disappointed! One ,
writer says: “I value the truth so
highly.“ (what she deems the truth
about little kittens). This trivial
matter is of supreme importance to
her so she stops reading Mystic. An-
other shrieks: “blasphemy against
Almighty God,” and referring to a
good story (God is in the Mount-
ain): “a fabric of almost unbeliev-
able evil.” Experience keeps a dear
school—but these silly little peo-
ple can learn in no other!

I desire to personally thank you
for publishing Mystic an excellent
and greatly needed magazine. Keep
up the good work. Nothing in the
magazine offends me (except letters
from Christians who shriek “blas-
phemy“) but then I am a Zen Bud-
dhist.

May your efforts meet with great-
est and continued success.

Cordially and fraternally
Rev. Ralph Rayburn Phillips
1414 S. W. 14th Ave.
Portland 1, Ore.

Dear Sir:

I have just finished 8 the
Editorial of the April, 1955 issue
of. Mystic and was very
in the part about Jesse James and
especially his old negro servant. Ac-

from the Un- cording to you they have all passed!

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away, but according to an old Negro
whom I met in Choctaw (suburb of
Okla. City) Okla. he claims to be
the old servant. He says he is 117
years old and according to what you
have written it does just about
match for age. He also brought out
a picture showing himself, Jesse
James and several other people cele-
brating Jesse’s 102nd birthday. He
pointed out another man who as he
said “was that bad Cole Younger”.

The picture was taken somewhere
in Missouri, but I can’t recall just
where,

I don’t remember his name, but
I do know the family he is living
with. I had a business transaction
in Dec, 1954 with this family so I’d
rather not have them know I’m writ-
ing this. Just in case there might
be ill feelings, but maybe you could
write to them and get very good in-
formation to prove your point a
little farther.

Write to;
Rev. James B. Ellis
Choctaw Rt. No. 1 Box No. 375
Choctaw, Oklahoma.
J. W. H.

Clinton, Okla.
Apparently we assumed too much.
The negro you mention is the one
we referred to, and we're happy to
learn he is still alive. If anyone is
interested, we think they l find that
Rev. Ellis can convince them that
Jesse still lived, and died at 103.

Dear Rap:

Date: Wednesday, February 16,
1955.

Time: Between 7:30 and 8 am.

Riding on a street car to work,
T am reading to help pass the time.
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ing on a grim and frightening article
from April, 1955 Mystie: “Atomic
Power—Will It Murder The Human
Race?” Presently I alight from the
street car. I buy the morning paper.
Double headlines catch my eye, stop
me short. REVEALS 7,000
SQUARE MILES LETHAL AFT-
ER SINGLE HYDROGEN BOMB
BLAST

I learn that the Atomic Bomb
Commission reported that the H-
Bomb tested by the U. S. a year ago
polluted a 7,000 square-mile area
with lethal radioactive fallout, There
is more to the news story, but what
catches my attention are the re-
marks of Dr. H. L. Keenleyside,
Canadian director-general of the U
N’s technical assistance administra-
tion. “Our only real hope,” he said,
lies in the possibility that at the
last minute, before the ultimate ca-
tastrophe, we may frighten our-
selves into sanity.”

Addressing the McGill University
School of Social Work, Dr. Keenley-
side, former undersecretary of state
for external affairs, went on to say:
“The scientists and soldiers tell us
that today—or at the latest tomor-
row —hostile nations on opposite
sides of the globe can hurl guided
missiles at each other with a mar-
gin of error on landing of only ten
miles; that each of these missiles
ean carry explosives that will de-
stroy all life within an area of 300
square miles; that there is no way
by which they can be effectively in-
tercepted; that even a brief continu-
ance of such a bombardment may so
pollute the atmosphere that life any-
where on earth will become impos-
sible.”

Dr. Keenleyside goes on to say
that although fear had never been

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an effective deterrent to war in
the past, it is just possible that hu-
manity, appalled by its own inven-
tions, may finally achieve peace.

In keeping with the subject, one
may wonder why, during the past
several years, flying saucer sight-
ings have steadily increased. One
reason, at least, was related by a
Mark Probert trance Control, Lao
Tse, in 1948. To quote:

“Always when a civilization has
reached its height, and is destined
to collapse, the Etherians have ap-
peared in numbers, They come to
make examination and final record
for their own knowledge.”

Needless to say, Wednesday, Feb-
Tuary 16 of the year 1955 is one
day I do little smiling:

Alex Saunders
84 Hillsdale Ave. West
Toronto, Ont., Canada

Dear Rap:

Having followed your editorial ad-
ventures since 1945 and of course
the Shaver Mystery, I believe I’m
entitled to have a few bothersome
questions answered.

Since 1945, when Shaver’s Mys-
tery first came into prominence,
about eight or ten “Shaver-type”
shafts were reported by various
readers—of these only (1) was ac-
tually verified, and the report on
it was far from convincing. ‘Pwo
reasons could account for that sad
state of affairs; deliberate falsehood
in reporting the existence of a shaft
—and; although there was a great
deal of talk, not much actual in-
vestigation was carried out. Several
times through the 1945-1949 period
you mentioned shafts whose loca-

ions you stated you could not re-
veal for some dark reason or other

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—particularly a couple of shafts
out here in the desert region. Come,
Come, RAP! The only way to prove
something exists is to have it veri-
fied by a competent investigator.
Perhaps I flatter myself, but I con-
sider myself competent. One of the
shafts out here was supposed to be
investigated by the mysterious Mr.
L. Taylor Hansen. You said you
were going to keep this location sec-
ret also. My first question is; where
are the approximate locations of all
the above mentioned shafts? If only
for my own benefit Ed like to prove
or disprove their existence.

Question number two is; what was
the final decision on Mr. Ed John’s
Mendocino county phenomenon? He
gave two different locations (to two
different magazines) as being the
“only” site of his Fortean experi-
ences.

I realize answering the above will
take up an editor’s valuable time,
but if you really want to prove a
theory that is almost as much yours
as Mr. Shaver’s, I believe yor take
the necessary time.

Let’s be truthful RAP, in nine
years no one has proven the exist-
ence of Mr. Shaver’s caverns or
shafts—nor, unfortunately, disprov-
en Mr. Malcolm Sargeant’s remarks
in Life Magazine.

I'd appreciate your answering my

‘questions as truthfully and com-

pletely as possible, Let’s finally get
something accomplished!
Leonard Alberts
147 north Alta Vista blvd.
Los Angeles 86, California
P. S.

Please, please, don't tell me that
my answers to my above questions
will be found in future issues of
Mystie—we both know they won't.

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Well we're still trying to find Mr.
Hansen. He didn’t give us the exact
location of his shaft, perhaps be-
cause he thought there might be
something of value in it. But to our
knowledge, he never came back. We
never heard from him, at least, and
we've tried for years to dig him up!

Another shaft was reported to us
by a Minnesota man who later

turned out to be one of the govern-

ment’s top secret service men, the
ablest spy we had in the last war.
Naturally we have reason to sus-
pect this was not a true report.

Yes, we did investigate several
caves. Harold Sherman told ug of
one, What did we find? Nothing,
ever, in any cave. Why bother to
keep on looking?. Nothing in them.

Ed John’s phenomenon? Can we
help it if he wasn’t consistent? We
offered to check, and so did many
readers, These many readers checked
and some got negative results, others
positive. Neither proved anything.

Yes, Pve proven Shaver’s caves.
Shaver doesn’t agree with me. I
say they are extra - dimensional.
Shaver says no, you can walk into
them without any fancy dimension
didoes. He doesn’t, though.

Yes, I hope some questions will be
answered in MYSTIC. The whole
purpose of the magazine is to pro-
vide answers, one way or another.
We've got more and more strange
things coming up, and some of
them will. be pretty interesting..

What about Shavers caves being
what psychics call the lower astral?
(See Dana Howard's letter). What
about the deros being dead? What
about the worst of the caves being
Hell? And the best, Heaven? What
about them being up instead of

down. What about a lot of things?

f

MYSTIC

Only don’t say that the Shaver Mys-
tery is founded on absolutely noth-
ing. I don’t fool around with nothing.

You know, Leonard, your “chal-
lenges” can be applied to religion
too? And will you get any “put up
or shut up”? The “show me” atti-
tude doesn’t work, because when you
get right down-to it, it’s a tough
proposition to “put up”. However,
even if we can’t “put up”, don’t
make that failure pay the penalty
of “shut up”. f

I heard Shaver’s voices, coming
from his own lips. He says they
come from caves. Willing to be-
lieve me? Were they his subconsei-
ous? Were they “obsessing spirits”?
Were they “telaug ray”? Was Shav-
er “controlled” by a gadget deep im
the earth? Or a gadget in the stra-
tosphere? Or by a flying saucer? Is
he a medium? Questions, questions,
questions . . . and all you want is
pat answers. Okay, NO, there are
no provable caves, and every one
we've been in was just a cave, no
more, no léss. But Shaver is real!
We don’t pass him off that easy. We
keep on trying.

Dear Editor:

I am writing about the SHAVER
myth. Richard S. Shaver is no mys-
tery man. He writes science fiction
that is out of this world, Like all
writers who want more than minor
circulation he had to think up a
“gimmick.” Unfortunately his gim-
mick took the form of the DERO
legend. I say unfortunately because
the idea of persecution by malevo-
lent unseen powers has a powerful
attraction for many of us, a carry-

over from the stories of childhood

and an appeal to the formless fears
that are a core of our personality.

*

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I think this DERO thing is not
a harmless one. It could be almost
vicious. It is so appealing to the
imagination that it is bound to in-
fluence those science fiction addicts
who are sensitive and tend to be

unstable. At least some of them will 2

blame their unpaid grocery bills,
importunate foremen, n wives
and. those other ills flesh is heir
to, not on their own lack of perfor-
mance and shortcomings which they
ean remove by hard work and effort,
but on persecution from some mys-
terious underground source. The in-
sane asylums are getting more
erowded each day. The number of
patients who suffer from delusions
of mysterious persecution is really
pitiful. Anyone who supplies a pow-
erful impetus that may push addi-
tional souls in the direction of fur-
ther instability and further from
reality is not to be taken lightly.

I think we can dispose of SHAV-
ER in the same way we do the For-
tunetellers who, for a price, will
forsee next month’s goings on for
us. Could these same people only
foresee acurately the race results
for one week, or the stock market
fluctuations for a few days they
would be so rich they would need no

for free, telegraphing them from
eir villa on the Riviera.

ER the same manner let us remind
Richard S. Shaver that if there were
ally a race of Deros he could not
write concerning them. If he did
he could not get e published.
In fact let us go a step further and
int out the obvious, If there were
uch things as Deros there wouldn't
e any such thing as Richard S.

price but could offer their services

aver.
That ends the Shaver mystery for

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a while, I sincerely hope. Although
* 1 doubt it.

Philip A. Hastings

15807 S. Roselle St.

Lawndale, California

Philip, you are guilty of d com-

fault, and that is making a

nt and assuming it is gos-

nd then hanging your whole

t on it. You say in effect

er's stories are shoving

nto insane asylums. Having

back with ‘Shae added to their
woes, I can point to several hun-
dred thousand who are there be-
cause they cracked up in the front
lines, but I don’t see you dismissing
the army on that account! Yes, we

know about F people who

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you hang your dismissal on a legit-
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